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The Tartu Winter\u00a0school on Evolution, Genomics and Medicine 2023\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4-8 December 2023<\/span><\/p>\n

online workshop<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the third school of a series of annual international courses<\/strong> that brings together evolution, genetics and medicine. The school is organised by the cGEM group at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia within the frames of H2020 grant no 810645\u00a0(www.cgem.ut.ee<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Programme<\/h3>\n

The course is focussed on methods and resources for identifying the present-day consequences of past natural selection for phenotypic variation and susceptibility to disease, and will cover advanced methods for inferring evolutionary histories from genomics data and linking them to large-scale genomic and functional datasets. Lectures introducing theoretical concepts and methods will be combined with workshops designed to give hands-on experience.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/h3>\n

Day 1 (Monday, 04\/12): Natural selection inference<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 Introduction to the summer school (Anders Eriksson)<\/p>\n

10:30 A primer in the theory and methods for inferring natural selection (Vasili Pankratov)<\/p>\n

12:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

13:30 Practical on evolutionary inference with Relate and Clues (Vasili Pankratov)<\/p>\n

17:00 End of day<\/p>\n

Day 2 (Tuesday, 05\/12): Evolution of complex traits<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 Q&A<\/p>\n

11:00 Evolution of complex traits (Anders Eriksson)<\/p>\n

12:00 Lunch break<\/p>\n

13:00 Testing polygenic selection with PAML \u2013 method overview and practical (Vasili Pankratov)<\/p>\n

17:00 End of day<\/p>\n

Day 3 (Wednesday, 06\/12): Inferring selection from ancient DNA<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 Introduction to ancient DNA analysis (Anders Eriksson)<\/p>\n

11:00 Practical (Anders Eriksson)<\/p>\n

13:00 End of day \/ self-study time<\/p>\n

Day 4 (Thursday, 07.12.2023)\u00a0Introgression from archaic humans and deep learning methods for evolutionary inference<\/strong><\/p>\n

10.00 Python Data Science 101 Practical (Mayukh Mondal)<\/p>\n

11.00 Neandertal admixture Theory (Danat Yermakovich)<\/p>\n

12.00 Neandertal admixture Practical (Danat Yermakovich)<\/p>\n

13:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 Neural Network Theory (Mayukh Mondal)<\/p>\n

15:30 Neural Network Practical (Mayukh Mondal)<\/p>\n

17:00 End of day<\/p>\n

Day 5 (Friday\u00a008\/12)\u00a0Theory and applications of immunoprofiling<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 Molecular profiling of the immune system \u2013 methods and applications<\/p>\n

11:00 Practical<\/p>\n

12:00 Final Q&A<\/p>\n

13:00 End of summer school<\/p>\n

Teachers<\/h3>\n

Anders Eriksson<\/strong>: Evolutionary of complex traits
\nHelle Sadam<\/strong>: Theory and applications of immunoprofiling
\nVasili Pankratov<\/strong>: Tree-based based methods of evolutionary inference
\nDanat Yermakovich<\/strong>: Introgression from archaic humans
\nMayukh Mondal<\/strong>: Deep learning methods for evolutionary inference<\/p>\n

The school will be held online December 4 \u2013 8 and will be free of charge<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Application<\/h3>\n

The course is aimed at PhD students of mathematics and bioinformatics with an interest in evolution. We also welcome students from biological and medical backgrounds with sufficient background in computational analysis, advanced undergraduates, and postdocs.<\/p>\n

Applications are to be sent by email to merit.kreitsberg@ut.ee. The application should contain:<\/p>\n