Modeling and Theory in Population Biology
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Maria Servedio, University of North Carolina
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 11:10 - 11:35
The role of theory in evolutionary biology
Marcus Feldman, Stanford University
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 11:35 - 12:00
Reflections on theoretical population biology then and now
Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 12:00 - 12:25
Prime numbers, variance functions, beetle larvae, aphids, and tornadoes: research in mathematical population biology leads to unexpected applications
Tanja Stadler, ETH - Zurich
Thursday Jan 11, 2024 12:25 - 12:50
Theoretical population biology in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Bruce Weir, University of Washington
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Forensic population genetics
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
& Maria Servedio: Theory job search advice & career challenges in Math/Stat/Physics departments
Jerome Kelleher, University of Oxford
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Tutorial: Software series, "Coalescent simulation with msprime"
Montgomery Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Recorded interview with Montgomery Slatkin
Francois Bienvenu, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
Where do phylogenetic trees come from?
Mia Miyagi, Brown University
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
Modeling introgression at linked loci
Ben Haller, Cornell University
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Tutorial: Software series - "SLiM"
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Panel discussion: Modeling & Theory Community series - "Strategies for teaching mathematical topics in population biology"
Lenore Pipes, UC Berkeley
Wednesday Apr 3, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
A fast approximate maximum likelihood phylogenetic placement method scalable for massive environmental DNA datasets
Maria Martignoni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wednesday Apr 3, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
Toward a unified theory of microbially mediated invasion
Alex Diaz-Papkovich, Brown University
Tuesday Apr 9, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Population genetics and Wikipedia
Marissa Baskett, University of California, Davis
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Models in service of conservation and restoration management: lessons from kelp forest systems
Deborah Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 12:00 - 13:00
Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series
Maria Kieshnina, Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse
Wednesday May 1, 2024 12:00 - 12:30
Efficiency and resilience of cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas
Alex Stein, Queen Mary University London
Wednesday May 1, 2024 12:30 - 13:00
A mathematical analysis of the mutational landscape in cancer before and after treatment
Simon Tavaré, Columbia University
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:05 - 13:20
Birth and death processes in phylogenetics and population genetics
Amaury Lambert, Ecole Normale Superiure
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:30 - 12:55
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa: Modernity and rejuvenation of the Yule 1925 model
Katia Koelle, Emory University
Wednesday May 8, 2024 12:55 - 13:20
Phylogenetic models in infectious disease epidemiology and evolution
Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday May 14, 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Interview: Reflections on the History of Modeling and Theory series
Ailene MacPherson, Simon Fraser University
Monday May 20, 2024 09:54 - 10:19
A call for Bayesian inference in local adaptation: what we can and can not learn from reciprocal transplant data [SESSION TITLE: SPATIAL MODELS]
Daniel Weissman, Emory University
Monday May 20, 2024 10:41 - 11:05
Challenges for selective sweep inference in spatially structured populations
Oana Carja, Carnegie Mellon University
Monday May 20, 2024 11:06 - 11:37
Topological puzzles in biology: how structure shapes a system's evolution
Mark Broom, University of London
Monday May 20, 2024 13:07 - 13:31
Biological modelling: some average research [SESSION TITLE: POPULATION MODELS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES]
Brandon Ogbunu, Yale University
Monday May 20, 2024 13:31 - 14:06
On biological laws
Caroline Colijn, Simon Fraser University
Monday May 20, 2024 14:09 - 14:34
A theory, not just a theory, or not even a theory? Strengths and pitfalls of quantitative modelling
Hamish Spencer, University of Otago
Monday May 20, 2024 14:34 - 15:01
Flavors of history in population modelling
Marcy Uyenoyama, Duke University
Tuesday May 21, 2024 09:04 - 09:29
Effect of genetic diversity on FST and LD
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Brown University
Tuesday May 21, 2024 09:30 - 09:47
Detecting introgression from multiple archaic populations
Matthew Osmond, University of Toronto
Tuesday May 21, 2024 09:54 - 10:30
Locating genetic ancestors with ancestral recombination graphs
Matthew Osmond, University of Toronto
Tuesday May 21, 2024 09:54 - 10:30
Locating genetic ancestors with ancestral recombination graphs
Jeremy Van Cleve, University of Kentucky
Tuesday May 21, 2024 11:13 - 11:47
Too big to (not) fail: scale, size, & critical transitions in social groups
Sasha Dall, University of Exeter
Tuesday May 21, 2024 13:07 - 13:30
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition [SESSION TITLE: COMPETITION, COOPERATION & CONFLICT]
Egor Lappo, Stanford University
Tuesday May 21, 2024 13:31 - 13:48
Cultural evolution modeling of move choice in chess
Joanna Masel, University of Arizona
Tuesday May 21, 2024 13:51 - 14:18
Fitness: how to get rid of it
Daniel Smith, University of Arizona
Tuesday May 21, 2024 14:18 - 14:42
A unified framework for interference and exploitative competition: synthesizing classic ecological and evolutionary game theory models
Benjamin Allen, Emmanuel College
Tuesday May 21, 2024 14:43 - 15:20
Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action
Noah Rosenberg, Stanford University
Wednesday May 22, 2024 09:27 - 09:56
Enumeration in mathematical phylogenetics: we are not afraid
Chloe Shiff, Stanford University
Wednesday May 22, 2024 09:56 - 10:20
Enumeration of rooted binary perfect phylogenies
Carolin Kosiol, University of St. Andrews
Wednesday May 22, 2024 10:47 - 11:15
PoMo via RevBayes: inferring phylogenies, disentangling GC-bias and balancing selection
Benjamin Peter, University of Rochester
Wednesday May 22, 2024 11:39 - 12:06
Interpreting principal components analysis
Troy Day, Queen's University
Thursday May 23, 2024 09:05 - 09:30
Modeling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations [SESSION TITLE: SELECTION AND ADAPTATION]
Puneeth Deraje, University of Toronto
Thursday May 23, 2024 09:56 - 10:17
The role of epigenetics in evolutionary rescue
Andrew Clark, Cornell University
Thursday May 23, 2024 10:39 - 11:09
Modeling piRNA defense against transposable elements
Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
Thursday May 23, 2024 11:10 - 11:31
The cost of acquiring information by natural selection
Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
Thursday May 23, 2024 11:10 - 11:31
The cost of acquiring information by natural selection
Daniel Weinreich, Brown University
Thursday May 23, 2024 11:31 - 11:58
Modifier Theory: The Population Genetics of Phenotypic Noise
Rohan Mehta, Emory
Thursday May 23, 2024 14:30 - 14:54
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of costly antipredator behavior: autotomy and offspring burden
Bryn Wiley, University of British Columbia
Thursday May 23, 2024 14:54 - 15:13
On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment
Mark Tanaka, University of New South Wales
Thursday May 23, 2024 15:45 - 16:10
Why is facultative parthenogenesis uncommon? [SESSION TITLE: MODES OF REPRODUCTION]
Sally Otto, University of British Columbia
Thursday May 23, 2024 16:11 - 16:38
Evolution when selection occurs in both haploid and diploid phases
Amy Forsythe, University of British Columbia
Friday May 24, 2024 09:04 - 09:23
A small change can make a big difference: capturing vital rate heterogeneity in Leslie matrices [SESSION TITLE: DEMOGRAPHY AND STAGE STRUCTURE]
Maria Orive, University of Kansas
Friday May 24, 2024 09:24 - 09:50
Evolutionary rescue and spatial adaptation under sexual and asexual reproduction: combining stage-structured models and quantitative phenotypes
Ulrich Steiner, Free University of Berlin
Friday May 24, 2024 09:50 - 10:13
Scaling stochastic molecular dynamics to demographic change in structured populations
Oren Kolodny, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Friday May 24, 2024 10:32 - 10:59
Modeling cultural and demographic interactions among prehistoric populations [SESSION TITLE: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION]
Kaleda Denton, Stanford University
Friday May 24, 2024 11:00 - 11:20
Modelling Constant and Stochastically Variable Conformity
Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University
Friday May 24, 2024 11:20 - 11:43
Theoretical approaches to understanding cultural change in birds and humans
