Workshops

Spring 2014

New Directions in Probabilistic Models of Evolution

Apr 28, 2014 to May 2, 2014

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, April 28th, 2014
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:40 am		The Role of Deleterious Mutations in Influenza’s Antigenic Evolution Katia Koelle, Duke University
9:50 am–10:30 am		New Methods for Inferring Species Trees in the Presence of Gene Tree Conflict Due to Incomplete Lineage Sorting Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Austin
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:40 am		Individual Stochasticity and Demographic Dynamics Ulrich Steiner, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:40 pm		Automatic Reconstruction of Ancient Languages Dan Klein, UC Berkeley
2:50 pm–3:30 pm		Modeling the Evolution of Genes and Genomes in the Presence of ILS and Hybridization Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–4:40 pm		Accounting for Gene Tree Estimation Error in Species Tree Reconstruction: Quantity Versus Quality Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:50 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:40 am		Genetic Diversity in the Interference Selection Limit Michael Desai, Harvard University
9:50 am–10:30 am		The Acceleration of Evolutionary Spread by Long-Range Dispersal Oskar Hallatschek, UC Berkeley
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:40 am		Evolutionary Dynamics of Large Sexual Populations: Some Needs and Challenges Daniel Fisher, Stanford University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:40 pm		A Spatial Model of Carcinogenesis Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota
2:50 pm–3:30 pm		Tracking the Invisible: A Probabilistic Approach to Field Cancerization Rick Durrett, Duke University presenting for Marc Ryser, Duke University
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–4:40 pm		Hindering Evolution in Prostate Cancer David Basanta, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:40 am		Evolutionary Rescue in Structured Populations Joachim Hermisson, University of Vienna
9:50 am–10:30 am		The Duration of a Selective Sweep in a Structured Population Peter Pfaffelhuber, University of Freiburg
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:40 am		Ancestral Features of Multitype Branching Trees Lea Popovic, Concordia University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:40 pm		From Individual-based Population Models to Lineage-based Models of Phylogenetic Trees Amaury Lambert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Collège de France

Thursday, May 1st, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		Modeling the Evolution of Within-host Reproductive Rates in Pathogens Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
10:20 am–11:00 am		Probabilistic Models for Pathogen Evolution Within and Between Hosts Shishi Luo, UC Berkeley
11:00 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		Mutation and Site-specific Selection Driving B Cell Affinity Maturation is Consistent Across Individuals Erick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:40 pm		Tools for Understanding the Geography of Adaptation Peter Ralph, University of Southern California
2:50 pm–3:30 pm		Quantitative Trait Evolution when Mutations have Large Effects Josh Schraiber, UC Berkeley
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–4:40 pm		Mathematical Problems in the Evolution of Senescence David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford

Friday, May 2nd, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:10 am		Mutation Accumulation and Empirical Calibration Kenneth Wachter, UC Berkeley
10:20 am–11:00 am		Stochastic Environments and Evolution in Structured Populations Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University
11:00 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:10 pm		Fitness Landscapes and Adaptive Evolution Joachim Krug, University of Cologne