Schedule for: 24htp001 - Modeling and Theory in Population Biology
Beginning on Thursday, January 11 and ending Friday May 24, 2024
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Thursday, January 11 | |
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| 11:10 - 11:35 | Maria Servedio: The role of theory in evolutionary biology (Online) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Marcus Feldman: Reflections on theoretical population biology then and now (Online) |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Joel E. Cohen: Prime numbers, variance functions, beetle larvae, aphids, and tornadoes: research in mathematical population biology leads to unexpected applications (Online) |
| 12:25 - 12:50 | Tanja Stadler: Theoretical population biology in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Online) |
| Wednesday, January 17 | |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Bruce Weir: Forensic population genetics (Online) |
| Tuesday, January 30 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Ailene MacPherson: & Maria Servedio: Theory job search advice & career challenges in Math/Stat/Physics departments ↓ Panelists: Ben Ashby (Simon Fraser University); Caroline Colijn (Simon Fraser University); Laura Kubatko (Ohio State University); Daniel Weissman (Emory University) (Online) |
| Tuesday, February 13 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Jerome Kelleher: Tutorial: Software series, "Coalescent simulation with msprime" (Online) |
| Tuesday, February 20 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Recorded interview with Montgomery Slatkin (Online) |
| Wednesday, February 28 | |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Francois Bienvenu: Where do phylogenetic trees come from? (Online) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Mia Miyagi: Modeling introgression at linked loci (Online) |
| Wednesday, March 13 | |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Ben Haller: Tutorial: Software series - "SLiM" (Online) |
| Wednesday, March 20 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Ailene MacPherson: Panel discussion: Modeling & Theory Community series - "Strategies for teaching mathematical topics in population biology" ↓ Panelists: Troy Day (Queen's University), Anna Dornhous & Joanna Masel (University of Arizona), Pleuni Pennings (San Francisco State University) (Online) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Noah Rosenberg: Online Coffee Hour (Online) |
| Tuesday, March 26 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Ailene MacPherson: & Maria Servedio Panel discussion: Career Development series - "Theory job search advice & career challenges in Biology departments" ↓ Panelists: Helen Alexander (University of Edinburgh); Maria Servedio (University of North Carolina); Jeremy Van Cleve (University of Kentucky); Claus Ruffler (Upsalla) (Online) |
| Wednesday, April 3 | |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Emilia Huerta-Sanchez: Lenore Pipes: A fast approximate maximum likelihood phylogenetic placement method scalable for massive environmental DNA datasets (Online) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Maria Martignoni: Toward a unified theory of microbially mediated invasion (Online) |
| Tuesday, April 9 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Alex Diaz-Papkovich: Population genetics and Wikipedia (Online) |
| Tuesday, April 16 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Marissa Baskett: Models in service of conservation and restoration management: lessons from kelp forest systems (Online) |
| Wednesday, April 24 | |
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Deborah Charlesworth: Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series ↓ Recorded interview with Deborah Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh (Online) |
| Wednesday, May 1 | |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Maria Kieshnina: Efficiency and resilience of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas (Online) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Alex Stein: A mathematical analysis of the mutational landscape in cancer before and after treatment (Online) |
| Wednesday, May 8 | |
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| 12:00 - 12:05 | Noah Rosenberg: Welcome Introduction (Online) |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Simon Tavaré: Birth and death processes in phylogenetics and population genetics (Online) |
| 12:30 - 12:55 | Amaury Lambert: Extensions of birth-death models of evolutionary trees (Online) |
| 12:55 - 13:20 | Katia Koelle: Phylogenetic models in infectious disease epidemiology and evolution (Online) |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Noah Rosenberg: Q&A with speakers (Online) |
| Tuesday, May 14 | |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Brian Charlesworth: Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series ↓ Recorded interview with Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh (Online) |
| Sunday, May 19 | |
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| 16:00 - 16:01 | Check-in begins 4PM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner from 5:30 - 7:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Monday, May 20 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Noah Rosenberg: Introduction to the meeting + participant introductions (TCPL 201) |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Ailene MacPherson: A call for Bayesian inference in local adaptation: what we can and can not learn from reciprocal transplant data (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Daniel Weissman: Inference in spatially structured populations (TCPL 201) |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Oana Carja: Topological puzzles in biology: how structure shapes a system's evolution (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:25 | Mark Broom: Biological modelling: some average research (TCPL 201) |
| 13:25 - 13:50 | Brandon Ogbunu: On biological laws (TCPL 201) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Caroline Colijn: A theory, not just a theory, or not even a theory? Strengths and pitfalls of quantitative modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Hamish Spencer: Flavors of history in population modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | SMTPB large-group discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | SMTPB workgroups (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, May 21 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Marcy Uyenoyama: A reformulation of measures of linkage disequilibrium and population structure under drift, inbreeding, and tight linkage: An approach through probabilities of identity by state (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Emilia Huerta-Sanchez: Detecting introgression from multiple archaic populations (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:35 | John Wakeley: Accounting for pedigrees in models of ancestral genetic processes (Online) |
| 10:35 - 11:20 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Matthew Osmond: Locating genetic ancestors with ancestral recombination graphs (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:25 | Joanna Masel: Unifying diverse models of competition across population biology (TCPL 201) |
| 13:25 - 13:50 | Sasha Dall: The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition (TCPL 201) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Egor Lappo: Cultural evolution modeling of move choice in chess (TCPL 201) |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Benjamin Allen: Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action (TCPL 201) |
| 14:35 - 14:55 | Daniel Smith: A unified framework for interference and exploitative competition: synthesizing classic ecological and evolutionary game theory models (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Zachary Szpiech: Too big to (not) fail: scale, size, & critical transitions in social groups (Online) |
| 15:55 - 16:45 | SMTPB large-group discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | SMTPB workgroups (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, May 22 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Julia Palacios: Distance-based modeling and inference in phylogenetics (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Lindi Wahl: Are high rates of bacterial extinction over geological time scales due to phage evolution? (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Chloe Shiff: Enumeration of rooted binary perfect phylogenies (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Noah Rosenberg: Enumeration in mathematical phylogenetics: we are not afraid (TCPL 201) |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | Carolin Kosiol: PoMo via RevBayes: inferring phylogenies, disentangling GC-bias and balancing selection (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Benjamin Peter: Interpreting principal components analysis (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, May 23 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Troy Day: Modeling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Yoav Ram: Fast adaption can be an evolutionary diversion (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Puneeth Deraje: The role of epigenetics and plasticity in evolutionary rescue (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Carl Bergstrom: The cost of acquiring information by natural selection (TCPL 201) |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | Daniel Weinreich: Evolution and biological noise (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Andrew Clark: Modeling piRNA defense against transposable elements (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:25 | Gili Greenbaum: Modeling piRNA defense against transposable elements (TCPL 201) |
| 13:25 - 13:45 | Maike Morrison: Quantifying the stability of microbiomes and the timescale of antibiotic perturbation (TCPL 201) |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | Viggo Andreasen: The effect of susceptible depletion on fitness and natural selection during the covid-pandemic (Online) |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Rohan Mehta: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of costly antipredator behavior: autotomy and offspring burden (TCPL 201) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Bryn Wiley: On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment (TCPL 201) |
| 14:55 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Mark Tanaka: Why is facultative parthenogenesis uncommon? (TCPL 201) |
| 15:55 - 16:20 | Sally Otto: Evolution when selection occurs in both haploid and diploid phases (TCPL 201) |
| 16:20 - 16:55 | SMTPB workgroups (TCPL 201) |
| 16:55 - 17:30 | SMTPB large-group discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in Vistas Dining Room, top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Friday, May 24 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Amy Forsythe: A small change can make a big difference: capturing vital rate heterogeneity in Leslie matrices (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:45 | Maria Orive: Evolutionary rescue and spatial adaptation under sexual and asexual reproduction: combining stage-structured models and quantitative phenotypes (TCPL 201) |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Ulrich Steiner: Scaling stochastic molecular dynamics to demographic change in structured populations (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL ) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11AM. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Oren Kolodny: Modeling cultural and demographic interactions among prehistoric populations (TCPL 201) |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Kaleda Denton: Why is cumulative culture rare in nature? (TCPL 201) |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Nicole Creanza: Theoretical approaches to understanding cultural change in birds and humans (TCPL 201) |
| 11:40 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
