Lecture schedule

Date
 Description
30 Aug Course overview; Genetic transmission in populations
01 Sep Hardy-Weinberg and principles of statistical estimation
03 Sep Inbreeding and self-fertilization
06 Sep
Labor Day -- no class
08 Sep Testing Hardy-Weinberg
Problem #1 assigned (smaller)
10 Sep F-statistics -- an introduction
13 Sep Analyzing the genetic structure of populations
15 Sep Bayesian F-statistics
Problem #2 assigned (larger)
17 Sep
No lecture
Problem #1 due
20 Sep Population structure -- individual assignment
22 Sep The genetics of natural selection
24 Sep The genetics of natural selection (continued)
27 Sep Estimating viability
29 Sep More complicated forms of natural selection
Problem #2 due
Problem #3 assigned (smaller)
01 Oct Genetic drift -- basic properties
04 Oct Genetic drift -- effective population size
06 Oct Mutation, migration, and drift
08 Oct Selection and drift
11 Oct The coalescent
Problem #3 due
13 Oct Quantitative genetics -- introduction
15 Oct
No lecture
18 Oct Quantitative genetics -- gory details
Problem #4 assigned (larger)
20 Oct Resemblance among relatives
22 Oct Evolution of quantitative traits
25 Oct Multivariate quantitative trait evolution
27 Oct Mapping quantitative trait loci -- principles
29 Oct Mapping quantitative trait loci -- QTL Cartographer
Problem #4 due
01 Nov Genome-wide association mapping -- principles
03 Nov Genome-wide association mapping -- BAMD
Problem #5 assigned (larger)
05 Nov
No lecture
08 Nov Molecular population genetics -- Introduction
10 Nov The neutral theory of molecular evolution
12 Nov Patterns of nucleotide and amino acid substitution
15 Nov Detecting selection on nucleotide polymorphisms
17 Nov Patterns of selection on nucleotide polymorphisms
19 Nov Tajima's D and related statistics
Problem #5 due
Problem #6 assigned (smaller)
22 Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no class
24 Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no class
26 Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no class
29 Nov Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA)
01 Dec Nested clade analysis (NCA)
03 Dec Statistical phylogeography
06 Dec Coalescent inference -- Migrate
Problem #6 due
Problem #7 assigned (larger)
08 Dec Approximate Bayesian computation
10 Dec Next generation population genetics and phylogeography
15 Dec
Problem #7 due
EEB 5348 -- Population Genetics