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Subject: Workshop: LaFouly_Switzerland.DemoGenetics.Jun6-10
A workshop on "ESTIMATING DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS FROM GENETIC DATA"
will be held in La Fouly, Valais, Switzerland, from June 6th to June 10th
2007.
The workshop aims at familiarizing participants with emerging statistical
methods (likelihood, Bayesian, MCMC, ABC, etc) allowing the estimation of
demographic parameters (e.g. migration, dispersal, densities, bottlenecks,
expansions, etc) from various types of molecular data.
Invited speakers:
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David Balding: Likelihood vs. Bayesian demographic inferences.
Principles of MCMC and ABC
Gil McVean: Estimating evolutionary parameters and demography
from DNA sequence data taking into account recombination.
Composite-likelihood and RJ-MCMC.
Rasmus Nielsen: Estimating evolutionary parameters and demography
from SNP data.
Andrew Rambaut: Demographic inference from fossil DNA data, skyline plots
Arnaud Estoup: Demographic and historical inference from recent invasions
Kent Holsinger: Hierarchical Bayesian models in geographical genetics,
or what in the Fst is going on?
Invited speakers and participants will also have the opportunity to present
their own research. Ample time will be allowed for discussions.
Registration fees are CHF 300.-, including local accommodation and food.
Fees are waived for students from the Swiss universities affiliated to the
CUSO (Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Fribourg and Berne), which will be given
priority.
Deadline for registration is March 31st 2007.
Please register directly on our web site:
http://www.unil.ch/dee/page11644_en.html
Note that the workshop is limited to 30 participants, and a final selection
will be done at the beginning of April.
Organizers :
J, Goudet & N. Perrin, University of Lausanne
L. Excoffier, University of Berne
Workshop location: http://www.dolent.ch/
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Laurent Excoffier
Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG)
Zoological Institute, University of Bern
6, Baltzerstrasse, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 631 30 31 Fax: +41 31 631 48 88
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URL: http://cmpg.unibe.ch/people/excoffier.htm
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