• Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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The Role of Deleterious Mutations in Influenza’s Antigenic Evolution
Katia Koelle, Duke University
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New Methods for Inferring Species Trees in the Presence of Gene Tree Conflict Due to Incomplete Lineage Sorting
Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Austin
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Break
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Individual Stochasticity and Demographic Dynamics
Ulrich Steiner, Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging
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Lunch
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Automatic Reconstruction of Ancient Languages
Dan Klein, UC Berkeley
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Modeling the Evolution of Genes and Genomes in the Presence of ILS and Hybridization
Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
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Break
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Accounting for Gene Tree Estimation Error in Species Tree Reconstruction: Quantity Versus Quality
Sebastien Roch (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Genetic Diversity in the Interference Selection Limit
Michael Desai (Harvard University)
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The Acceleration of Evolutionary Spread by Long-Range Dispersal
Oskar Hallatschek (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Large Sexual Populations: Some Needs and Challenges
Daniel Fisher (Stanford University)
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Lunch
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A Spatial Model of Carcinogenesis
Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota
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Tracking the Invisible: A Probabilistic Approach to Field Cancerization
Rick Durrett (Duke University), Marc Ryser, Duke University
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Break
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Hindering Evolution in Prostate Cancer
David Basanta, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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Coffee and Check-In
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Evolutionary Rescue in Structured Populations
Joachim Hermisson (University of Vienna)
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The Duration of a Selective Sweep in a Structured Population
Peter Pfaffelhuber (Freiburg University)
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Break
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Ancestral Features of Multitype Branching Trees
Lea Popovic (Concordia University)
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Lunch
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From Individual-based Population Models to Lineage-based Models of Phylogenetic Trees
Amaury Lambert, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Collège de France
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Coffee and Check-In
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Modeling the Evolution of Within-host Reproductive Rates in Pathogens
Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University
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Probabilistic Models for Pathogen Evolution Within and Between Hosts
Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Mutation and Site-specific Selection Driving B Cell Affinity Maturation is Consistent Across Individuals
Erick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Lunch
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Tools for Understanding the Geography of Adaptation
Peter Ralph, University of Southern California
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Quantitative Trait Evolution when Mutations have Large Effects
Josh Schraiber, UC Berkeley
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Break
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Mathematical Problems in the Evolution of Senescence
David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford
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Coffee and Check-In
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Mutation Accumulation and Empirical Calibration
Kenneth Wachter, UC Berkeley
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Stochastic Environments and Evolution in Structured Populations
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University
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Break
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Fitness Landscapes and Adaptive Evolution
Joachim Krug (University of Cologne)