Section outline

  • Sunday 29 May

    >17:00    Participants arrival
    18:30         Informal welcome and presentation of the event
    19:00         Dinner
    20:30         Ice-breaking meeting, participants introduce themselves, drinks

    Monday 30 May: Ancient DNA and Adaptation (1)

    09:00         Lecture 1.1: Detecting adaptively introgressed regions in present-day human populations (Emilia Huerta Sánchez)
    10:20         Coffee break
    10:50         Lecture 1.2: Tracking genomic, epigenomic and community changes with ancient DNA time capsules (Ludovic Orlando)
    12:15         Lunch
    14:00         Practicals 1.1
    15:45         Coffee break
    16:15         Practicals 1.2
    18:15         Free networking/bath
    20:00         Dinner
    21:30         Bar/armchair talk (topic not defined yet)*

    *armchair talk are informal talks (no powerpoint, no classroom), where 1 or more people speak about a particular aspect of their career

    Tuesday 31 May: Evolution of gene expression

    09:00         Lecture 2.1: Evolution of fire ant social chromosomes (Yannick Wurm)
    09:45         Lecture 2.2: Impact of gene expression patterns on molecular evolution (Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
    10:30         Coffee break
    10:50         Lecture 2.3: On the impact of genetic on molecular and organismal (immunological) variation (Bart Deplancke)
    12:15         Lunch
    14:00         Practicals 2.1
    15:45         Coffee break
    16:15         Practicals 2.2
    18:15         Free networking/bath
    20:00         Dinner
    21:30         My favourite package participants talk

    Wednesday 1 June: Demography and social activity

    09:00         Lecture 3.1: From Population Genetics to Demographic Inference: How genomes help us understand human history (Stephan Schiffels)
    10:20         Coffee break
    10:50         Lecture 3.2: Demographic inference from NGS data based on the site frequency spectrum: Advantages and pitfalls (Laurent Excoffier)
    12:15         Lunch
    13:45         Practicals 3.1
    15:45         Social activity (Leukerbad Therme, or Sport Arena)
    19:30         Dinner (Raclette)
    21:30         Bar/armchair talk: "Women in science" by Beth Shapiro and Emilia Huerta Sànchez and Philine Feulner

    Thursday 2 June: Ancient DNA and Adaptation (2)

    08:50         Lecture 4.1: Speciation genomics: beyond a fish perspective (Philine Feulner)
    10:15         Coffee break + check out
    10:40         Lecture 4.2: Inferring admixture and selection using ancient genomes: two case studies (Beth Shapiro)
    12:00         Lunch
    13:00         Practicals 4.1+4.2
    14:50         concluding remarks
    15:00         End of the event