[Mitarbeiter.zoologie] Fwd: Course: UTennessee_Knoxville.Selection.Jun3-7

[Robert Paxton]

Dear All,

The following might interest many in the group.

Robert



> 
> 
> **Feb. 1 Deadline Appr//oaching**
> 
> /The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis 
> (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Tutorial, "The Search 
> for Selection," to be held June 3-7, 2019, at NIMBioS. The tutorial was 
> previously held in June 2018.
> 
> *Objectives:* Biologists are obsessed (indeed, seduced) by the search 
> for signatures of selection in organismal features of interest, ranging 
> from specific traits to genome-wide signatures. A vast number of 
> approaches have been suggested in this search for selection, including 
> genomic-based signatures of recent or ongoing selection, tests based on 
> either excessive amounts or nonrandom patterns of divergence (in both 
> fossil sequences and functional genomics data) and the more classical 
> Lande-Arnold fitness estimates (direct association of phenotypic values 
> with fitness estimates) and their modern extensions (such as aster 
> models). Given the breadth of such searches, a large amount of machinery 
> has been developed, but is rarely presented in a unified fashion. This 
> tutorial presents an integrated overview of all these approaches, 
> highlighting common themes and divergent assumptions.
> 
> The goal of this tutorial is to expose investigators from all branches 
> of biology to this rich menagerie of tests. It is applicable for 
> population geneticists, genome biologists, evolutionary ecologists, 
> paleontologists, functional morphologists, and just about any biologist 
> who ponders on how to formally demonstrate that a feature (or features) 
> of interest might have been shaped by selection.
> 
> The intended audience is advanced graduate students, postdocs, and 
> faculty with an interest in searching for targets of selection, be they 
> particular genomic sequences or particular traits. Given the breadth of 
> this topic, the material would be of interest to individuals from 
> functional genomics, population and evolutionary genetics, ecology, 
> paleobiology, functional morphology, and statistics (as well as other 
> fields).  Background required: some basic introduction to population 
> and/or quantitative genetics.
> 
> *Location:* NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
> 
> *Organizer:* J. Bruce Walsh, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of 
> Arizona
> 
> For more information about the tutorial and a link to the online 
> application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/tutorials/selection2
> 
> Participation in NIMBioS tutorials is by application only. Individuals 
> with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and 
> successful applicants will be notified within several weeks after the 
> application deadline. NIMBioS will cover lodging (5 nights) and provide 
> breakfast and lunch each day at NIMBioS. Limited travel support is 
> available for those with a demonstrated need. Applicants should indicate 
> on the online application whether they need travel support.
> *
> **Application deadline: February 1, 2019*
> 
> The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis 
> (NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from 
> around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to 
> investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life 
> sciences. NIMBioS is supported by the National Science Foundation, with 
> additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
> 
> 
> 
> Sergey Gavrilets
> Distinguished Professor
> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> Department of Mathematics
> Associate Director for Scientific Activities
> National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
> Director, Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC)
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
> Research Affiliate
> School of Anthropology, University of Oxford
> 51-53 Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6PE
> 
> phone: (865) 974-8136
> fax:   (865) 974-3067
> e-mail: gavrila at tiem.utk.edu
> web: www.tiem.utk.edu/~gavrila
> NIMBioS: www.nimbios.org
> DySoC: www.dysoc.org
> 
> Sergey Gavrilets <sergey at nimbios.org>
>