Here you will find lecture slides and learning activities for the 2020 Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics. Slides and activities are designed by the faculty and the workshop team.

This page will be updated during the workshop.



Week I

Workshop introduction and orientation

Computer lab, UNIX, R, and Python

Participant introduction

Likelihood, probability, and Bayesian inference

First steps in genomic data analysis

Organismal diversification

Demographic inference

Adaptation and selection

The coalescent and genome-wide genealogy inference

Evolution of the mutation spectrum


Week II

Population structure

MSMC population size inference / Experimental design and genome assembly

Multi-species coalescent analyses and species delimitation

Speciation and hybridization

Identify associations between genetic regions and traits using GWAS