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
- Connecting to your Amazon instance (activity)
- Connecting to your Amazon instance (slides)
- Basic UNIX, some tips and tricks, and more! (activity)
- Introduction to R (activity)
- Introduction to R (slides)
- Genome data analysis in Python (activity)
Participant introduction
Likelihood, probability, and Bayesian inference
- Probability in population and speciation genomics (lecture slides part 1)
- Probability in population and speciation genomics (lecture slides part 2)
- Probability in population and speciation genomics (lecture notes)
- Probability in population and speciation genomics (activity)
First steps in genomic data analysis
Organismal diversification
Demographic inference
- Demographic inference based on the SFS (lecture slides part 1)
- Demographic inference based on the SFS (lecture slides part 2)
- Inferring demography with fastsimcoal2 (activity)
- fastsimcoal2 input files (notes)
Adaptation and selection
- Detecting selection and local adaptation (lecture slides)
- Adaptation and selection (activity slides)
- Detecting environmental selection (activity)
The coalescent and genome-wide genealogy inference
Evolution of the mutation spectrum
Week II
Population structure
- Inferring population structure (lecture slides)
- How not to over-interpret STRUCTURE plots (slides)
- fineSTRUCTURE activity
- fineRADstructure activity
MSMC population size inference / Experimental design and genome assembly
Multi-species coalescent analyses and species delimitation
- MSC and it’s application in phylogenetics and species delimitation (lecture slides part 1)
- MSC and it’s application in phylogenetics and species delimitation (lecture slides part 2)
- MSC and it’s application in phylogenetics and species delimitation (lecture slides part 3)
- MSC and it’s application in phylogenetics and species delimitation (lecture slides part 4)
- Species-tree inference based on the multi-species coalescent (activity)
- Species-tree inference based on the multi-species coalescent (slides)
- Species delimitation with DELINEATE and DECRYPT (activity)
Speciation and hybridization
- Speciation and hybridization (lecture part 1)
- Speciation and hybridization (lecture part2)
- Topology weighting introduction
- Topology weighting (activity)
- ABBA-BABA test intro slides
- Analyses of introgression with Dsuite (activity)
Identify associations between genetic regions and traits using GWAS