Introductory Course

External students from Austrian universities are also welcome to attend: for registration and details, please send us an email. International students: please inquire by email and find out about registration, university paper work etc.

Prerequisites: We strongly recommend basic knowledge of programming skills.

Course dates 2024:

Dates: Sept. 02 - Oct 03, 2024

Location: Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna

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Schedule summary:

Week 1
Probability - Claus Vogl
Statistical concepts - Andreas Futschik
Statistical practice in R - Manolis Lirakis
Experimental evolution - Neda Barghi

Week 2
Population genetics - Christian Schlötterer
PopGen problems - Claus Vogl

Week 3
Population genetics - Christian Schlötterer
PopGen problems - Claus Vogl
Alignments, UNIX - Robert Kofler
Introduction to the coalescent - Joachim Hermisson
Neutrality tests - Joachim Hermisson
SLiM - Changyi Xiao and Diogo Ribeiro
Polygenic adaptation - Himani Sachdeva

Week 4
Polygenic adaptation - Himani Sachdeva
Intro to machine learning - Rui Borges
Speciation - Barbara Wallner
EvolVienna Meeting
Sequencing technology - Christian Schlötterer
Quantitative Genetics I - Marlies Dolezal
Quantitative Genetics II - Magnus Nordborg & Tom Ellis

Week 5
Python & NGS analysis - Robert Kofler
RNAseq - Yiwen Chen
Quantitative Genetics III - Kelly Swarts

Last updated: Jul 29, 2024