[QSB-grads] Fwd: Course: NIMBioS_UTennessee.Selection.Jun18-22

[Miriam Barlow]

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Subject: Course: NIMBioS_UTennessee.Selection.Jun18-22
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The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
is now accepting applications for its Tutorial, The Search for Selection,
to be held June 18-22, 2018, at NIMBioS.

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, we expect students from functional genomics, population and
evolutionary genetics, ecology, paleobiology, functional morphology,
and statistics (as well as other fields). The background required is
some basic introduction to population and/or quantitative genetics.

Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Organizer:
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/selection 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. If needed, limited financial support for travel expenses
is available.

Application deadline: February 1, 2018 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 sponsored by the National
Science Foundation, with additional support from The University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.



"Walsh, James Bruce - (jbwalsh)" <jbwalsh at email.arizona.edu>




-- 
Miriam Barlow
Founding Faculty and Associate Professor
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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