Mathematical population genetics

and statistical physics

December 16^th -- December 20^th, 2002

Monday, 16^th December

09.00 -- 10.00 N. Barton: A general framework for analyzing selection on

multiple loci (Mathematica-demonstration)

10.15 -- 11.15 Y. Lyubich: Mathematical framework for phenotypical selection

11.30 -- 12.30 S. Lessard: The two-locus ancestral recombination graph in subdivided populations

lunch break

14.00 -- 15.00 T. Johnson: The molecular evolution of bacterial DNA uptake

signal sequences

(coffee) break

17.15 -- 18.15 K. Dawson: A Bayesion approach to some clustering problems in population genetics

Tuesday, 17^th December

10.00 -- 11.00 G. Wagner: A measurement theoretical approach to multilocus

population genetics

coffee break

11.30 -- 12.30 J. Hermisson: Epistasis in polygenic traits and the evolution of

genetic architecture under stabilizing selection

lunch break

14.15 -- 15.15 R. Haygood: Genetic polymorphism maintained by sexual

conflict

15.30 -- 16.30 L. Peliti: Evolutionary games and quasispecies

coffee break

17.00 -- 18.00 R. Garay: Genetical Reachability: When does a sexual population realize all phenotypic states in linkage equilibrium?

Wednesday, 18^th December

09.30 -- 10.30 V. Passekov: On the genetic interpretation of eigenvectors

in models of nonepistatic selection

coffee break

11.00 -- 12.00 A. Gimelfarb: Additive genetic variance after a bottleneck

12.30 -- 13.30 C. Richard: Models of interacting polymers and the DNA denaturation transition

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& “HEURIGER” IN THE EVENING

Thursday, 19^th December

09.00 -- 10.00 D. Dawson: Spatial models with selection and mutation I

(lecture hall 3 / institute for mathematics)

coffee break

11.00 -- 12.00 A. Greven: Spatial models with selection and mutation II

lunch break

14.00 -- 15.00 I. Zaehle: The genealogy in the stepping stone model

coffee break

15.30 -- 16.30 M. Birkner: Long-time behaviour of branching random walk in a space-time i.i.d. random environment

Friday, 20^th December

(lecture hall 3 / institute for mathematics)

09.00 -- 10.00 C. Matessi: Long-term consequences of disruptive selection

on a continuous two-locus trait

10.15 -- 11.15 U. Dieckmann:Evolutionary branching along environmental gradients:

From asexual evolution to multilocus genetics

11.30 -- 12.30 S. Gavrilets: On the dynamics of speciation

lunch break

14.00 -- 15.00 M. Turelli: Polygenic variation maintained by balancing selection: pleiotropy, sex-dependent allelic effects and GxE interactions

farewell coffee