Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Conference

Pic Saint Loup

Saint Martin de Londres

Program (PDF)

Monday, June 18

09:00	Bus from Montpellier to Hameau de l'Etoile
10:30	Café & croissants
10:50	Bienvenue
11:00 - 12:30	V.MOULTON - Recent progress on phylogenetic networks.
12:45	Déjeuner
14:30 - 16:00	A.ESTOUP - ABC (Approximate Bayesian Computation) methods to make inference about population history from molecular data: principles and applications. Slides
16:00	Thé & gateaux
16:30 - 18:10 (20 min)	D.BRYANT - Efficient lying with simulations. T.STADLER - How much do species limit each other? Slides S.WHELAN - The effect of multiple sequence alignment methodology on downstream evolutionary analyses. C.SCORNAVACCA - Constructing minimal phylogenetic networks from softwired clusters is fixed parameter tractable. M.FISCHER - Phylogenetically decisive taxon coverage.

Tuesday, June 19

09:15 - 10:45	N.ROSENBERG - Models and methods for gene trees and species trees.
10:45	Café & croissants
11:15 - 12:45	M.BLUM - Approximate Bayesian Computation: algorithms, theory and applications. Slides
12:45	Déjeuner
14:30 - 16:10 (20 min)	A.LAMBERT - Coalescent point processes and phylogenies. Slides S.GRAVEL - Methods and challenges in the analysis of admixed human genomes. Slides J.SIRÉN - Inference on population trees by approximating wright-fisher diffusions. Slides G.BAELE - Improving the accuracy of demographic and molecular clock model comparison while accommodating phylogenetic uncertainty. Slides L.N.ANDERSEN - Inferring population histories in the IM-model. Slides
19:00 - 20:00	Apéritif & posters

Wednesday, June 20

09:15 - 10:45	M.STEEL - Probabilistic models of evolutionary trees. Slides
10:45	Café & croissants
11:15 - 12:45	C.ANÉ - Reconstructing species trees, concordance trees and testing the coalescent model. Slides
12:45	Déjeuner
14:00 - 20:00	Balade

Thursday, June 21

09:15 - 10:45	E.SUSKO - Testing phylogenies. Slides
10:45	Café & croissants
11:15 - 12:45	O.EULENSTEIN - Supertrees and phylogenomics.
12:45	Déjeuner
14:30 - 16:10	L.ZHANG - Reconciliation of gene and species trees with polytomies. T.WIEHE - Combinatoric and probabilistic properties of coalescent trees and relatives. M.S.BANSAL - Reconciliation revisited : towards faster and more accurate inference of gene family evolution by duplication, transfer, and loss. F.ROUSSET - Likelihood-based inference under spatial structure and demographic changes : the Migraine project
19:00 - 20:00	Apéritif & posters

Friday, June 22

09:25 - 10:45 (20 min)	O.FRANÇOIS - A unified framework for inferring population genetic structure and gene-environment associations. Slides P.PUDLO - Empirical likelihood for Bayesian inference in population genetics. Slides J.BERTL - Approximate inference for high dimensional population genetic models using stochastic gradient methods. Slides E.TANNIER - Evolution of gene neighborhoods within reconciled phylogenies. Slides
10:45	Café & croissants
11:15 - 12:45	A.HOBOLTH - Understanding the coalescent-with-recombination in time and space: A review and unifying framework.
12:45	Déjeuner
14:00 - 15:30	A.STAMATAKIS - High Performance Phylogenetics. Slides
16:00	The end! Bus to Montpellier

SMBE 2012