Modeling & Theory in Population Biology at the Banff International Research Station
May 20, 2024 - May 24, 2024
The society hosted a hybrid research meeting with a small in-person component at the Banff International Research Station. A summary of the event by participants Gili Greenbaum and Oana Carja has been published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution and can be read here.
The full report of the meeting can be read on the BIRS website here.
Schedule:
| Monday, May 20 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Noah Rosenberg: Introduction to the meeting; participant introductions (in-person participants) (TCPL 201) |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Ailene MacPherson: A call for Bayesian inference in local adaptation: what we can and can not learn from reciprocal transplant data [SESSION TITLE: SPATIAL MODELS] (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Daniel Weissman: Challenges for selective sweep inference in spatially structured populations (TCPL 201) |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Oana Carja: Topological puzzles in biology: how structure shapes a system's evolution (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:25 | Mark Broom: Biological modelling: some average research [SESSION TITLE: POPULATION MODELS, GENERAL PRINCIPLES] (TCPL 201) |
| 13:25 - 13:50 | Brandon Ogbunu: On biological laws (TCPL 201) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Group Photo ↓ (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Caroline Colijn: A theory, not just a theory, or not even a theory? Strengths and pitfalls of quantitative modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Hamish Spencer: Flavors of history in population modelling (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | SMTPB large-group discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | SMTPB workgroups (in-person participants) (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, May 21 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Marcy Uyenoyama: Effect of genetic diversity on FST and LD (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Emilia Huerta-Sanchez: Detecting introgression from multiple archaic populations (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Matthew Osmond: Locating genetic ancestors with ancestral recombination graphs (TCPL 201) |
| 10:35 - 11:20 | Coffee Break (online coffee break together with CIRM) (TCPL Foyer) |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Jeremy Van Cleve: Too big to (not) fail: scale, size, & critical transitions in social groups (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:25 | Sasha Dall: The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition [SESSION TITLE: COMPETITION, COOPERATION & CONFLICT] (TCPL 201) |
| 13:25 - 13:45 | Egor Lappo: Cultural evolution modeling of move choice in chess (TCPL 201) |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | Joanna Masel: Fitness: how to get rid of it (TCPL 201) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Daniel Smith: A unified framework for interference and exploitative competition: synthesizing classic ecological and evolutionary game theory models (TCPL 201) |
| 14:30 - 14:55 | Benjamin Allen: Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:55 - 16:45 | SMTPB large-group discussion (in-person participants) (TCPL 201) |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | SMTPB workgroups (in-person participants) (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, May 22 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Julia Palacios: Distance-based modeling and inference in phylogenetics [SESSION TITLE: PHYLOGENY, TREES, AND MACROEVOLUTION] (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Noah Rosenberg: Enumeration in mathematical phylogenetics: we are not afraid (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Chloe Shiff: Enumeration of rooted binary perfect phylogenies (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Lindi Wahl: Are high rates of bacterial extinction over geological time scales due to phage evolution? (TCPL 201) |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | Carolin Kosiol: PoMo via RevBayes: inferring phylogenies, disentangling GC-bias and balancing selection (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Benjamin Peter: Interpreting principal components analysis (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, May 23 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Troy Day: Modeling the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations [SESSION TITLE: SELECTION AND ADAPTATION] (TCPL 201) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | Yoav Ram: Fast adaption can be an evolutionary diversion (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Puneeth Deraje: The role of epigenetics in evolutionary rescue (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Andrew Clark: Modeling piRNA defense against transposable elements (Online) |
| 10:55 - 11:20 | Carl Bergstrom: The cost of acquiring information by natural selection (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Daniel Weinreich: Modifier Theory: The Population Genetics of Phenotypic Noise (TCPL 201) |
| 11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:10 - 13:35 | Gili Greenbaum: Eco-evolutionary modeling of gene drives [SESSION TITLE: ECOLOGY/EVOLUTION INTERFACE] (TCPL 201) |
| 13:35 - 13:55 | Maike Morrison: Quantifying the stability of microbiomes and the timescale of antibiotic perturbation (TCPL 201) |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Viggo Andreasen: The effect of susceptible depletion on fitness and natural selection during the covid-pandemic (TCPL 201) |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Rohan Mehta: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of costly antipredator behavior: autotomy and offspring burden (TCPL 201) |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Bryn Wiley: On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment (TCPL 201) |
| 14:55 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Mark Tanaka: Why is facultative parthenogenesis uncommon? [SESSION TITLE: MODES OF REPRODUCTION] (TCPL 201) |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Sally Otto: Evolution when selection occurs in both haploid and diploid phases (TCPL 201) |
| 16:20 - 16:55 | SMTPB workgroups (in-person participants) (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:55 - 17:30 | SMTPB large-group discussion (in-person participants) (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Friday, May 24 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Amy Forsythe: A small change can make a big difference: capturing vital rate heterogeneity in Leslie matrices [SESSION TITLE: DEMOGRAPHY AND STAGE STRUCTURE] (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:45 | Maria Orive: Evolutionary rescue and spatial adaptation under sexual and asexual reproduction: combining stage-structured models and quantitative phenotypes (TCPL 201) |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | Ulrich Steiner: Scaling stochastic molecular dynamics to demographic change in structured populations (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Checkout by 11AM ↓ (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 10:30 - 10:55 | Oren Kolodny: Modeling cultural and demographic interactions among prehistoric populations [SESSION TITLE: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION] (TCPL 201) |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Kaleda Denton: Modelling Constant and Stochastically Variable Conformity (TCPL 201) |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Nicole Creanza: Theoretical approaches to understanding cultural change in birds and humans (TCPL 201) |
| 11:40 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |