Programme

  • 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and Introduction
    Asger Hobolth, BiRC and Thiele, University of Aarhus and
    Philippe Lamy, MDL, Skejby Hospital, University of Aarhus

Late morning session: Statistical methods

  • 10:10 - 11:00 Title: Understanding human admixture, and association mapping in admixed populations
    Simon Myers, Department of Statistics, Oxford University
  • 11:00 - 11:50 Title: Inference for Lambda-coalescents
    Matthias Birkner, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin
  • 11:50 - 13:00 LUNCH BREAK

Early afternoon session: Evolution

  • 13:00 - 13:50 Title: New methods for genome-wide population genetics
    Julien Dutheil, BiRC
  • 13:50 - 14:40 Title: Beneficial mutations: models and inference from experimental evolution data
    Thomas Bataillon, BiRC
  • 14:40 - 15:00: COFFEE BREAK

Late afternoon session: Epidemiology and immunology

  • 15:00 - 15:50 Title: Approximate Bayesian Computation in a hierarchial model: Applications to detecting selection
    Mark Beaumont, University of Reading
  • 15:50 - 16:40 Title: Simulation models of the immune system
    Claus Lundegaard, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
    Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
  • 16:40 - 16:45 Closing Remarks
    Asger Hobolth, BiRC and Thiele, University of Aarhus
  • 16:45 - 17:30 Beers and free discussion