Date
Description
29AugustCourse overview; Genetic transmission in populations
31AugustThe Hardy-Weinberg principle and estimating allele frequencies
05SeptemberInbreeding and self-fertilization
07SeptemberAnalyzing the genetic structure of populations: the Wahlund effect and F-statistics
07September
EEB Departmental seminar, 3:30pm
Decomposing the contributions of gene flow, selection, and genetic drift to evolutionary change, Graham Coop, University of California, Davis
12SeptemberIndividual assignment using Structure
Project #1
14SeptemberIndividual assignment using Structure
Project #1
19SeptemberGenetics of natural selection: principles
21SeptemberGenetics of natural selection: estimating viabilities
26SeptemberGenetic drift: Introduction
28SeptemberGenetic drift: effective population size
03OctoberGenetic drift: mutation and migration
05OctoberGenetic drift and natural selection
10OctoberGenetic drift: the coalescent
12OctoberGenetic drift: the coalescent
17OctoberMolecular evolution: history and principles
Project #2
19OctoberMolecular evolution: patterns of nucleotide and amino acid substitution
Project #2
24OctoberMolecular evolution: detecting selection on nucleotide sequences
26OctoberAnalysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA)
31OctoberStatistical phylogeography: Migrate, IMa, and ABC
02NovemberStatistical phylogeography: Admixture graphs and sparg
07NovemberPopulation genomics; Introduction to quantitative genetics
Project #3
09NovemberQuantitative genetics: Introduction and partitioning the genetic variance
Project #3
14NovemberQuantitative genetics: resemblance among relatives
16NovemberQuantitative genetics: evolution of quantitative traits
21November
Thanksgiving break
23November
Thanksgiving break
28NovemberQuantitative genetics: evolution of multiple traits
30NovemberQuantitative genetics: principles and applications of association mapping
05DecemberQuantitative genetics: genomic prediction
07DecemberSpecial guest lectures: Nick Van Gilder and Isabelle Ampofo