Workshop on Mathematics of Sequence Evolution: Biological Models and Applications

September 23-27, 2013

Program
 

Monday, September 23, 2013
09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:15 - 09:30
Welcoming addresses
09:30 - 10:30
Andrew Roger
(Dalhousie University)
An energy model for protein evolution with independence amongst sites
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Claudia Kleinman
(McGill University)
Modelling structural constraints on protein evolution: current progress and open challenges
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Simon Joly
(Jardin Botanique de Montréal)
Model-based approaches for studying hybridization
15:00 - 15:30
Yifei Huang
(McMaster University)
Phylogenetic gaussian process model for the inference of functional protein regions
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Louis Bernatchez
(Université Laval)
Next-generation population genomics, non-model species, and needs for analytical development: an empiricist perspective
Abstract

 

Tuesday, September 24, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Edward Susko
(Dalhousie University)
Tests for two trees using likelihood methods
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Richard Goldstein
(MRC National Inst. for Medical Research)
Decoding the evolutionary record: What advanced models of sequence change reveal to us about proteins
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Short talks
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Nicolas Rodrigue
(University of Ottawa)
Evaluating deviations from the mutation-selection balance in protein-coding gene evolution
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Nicolas Lartillot
(UMR CNRS 5558, Université Lyon 1)
Reconstrucing the evolution of the population-genetic environment and of life-history traits along phylogenies
Abstract
16:30 - 17:30
Mathieu Blanchette
(McGill University)
Ancestral genome reconstruction and its uses toward annotating the human genome
Abstract

 

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Cédric Chauve
(Simon Fraser University)
Retrospective and perspectives on reconstructing ancestral genomes organization in a model-free framework
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Hughes Roest Crollius
(École Normale Supérieure )
Out of the mists of times: reconstructing ancestral genomes and their use in genomics
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Manuel Lafond
(Université de Montréal)
Gene tree correction guided by orthology

12:00
Free afternoon

 

Thursday, September 26, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Guillaume Bourque
(McGill University)
The role of transposable elements in genome evolution
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Christian Landry
(Université Laval)
The use molecular evolution to identify functional and non functional elements in biological networks
11:30 - 12:00
Jackie Vogel
(McGill University)
Quantitative real-space interrogation of protein structure-function relationships in living cells
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00
Hervé Philippe
(Université de Montréal)
Phylogenomics: are models of sequence evolution key to improve accuracy?
15:00 - 15:30
Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo
(UQAM)
A probabilistic approach for gene tree reconstruction including duplication, loss and horizontal gene transfer
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Glenn Hickey
(UC Santa Cruz)
A probabilistic model for sequence alignment with context-sensitive indels
Abstract

 

Friday, September 27, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Tony Capra
(Vanderbilt University)
Integrating evolutionary and functional genomics to find human-specific enhancers of gene expression
Abstract
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:30 - 11:30
Jérôme Waldispühl
(McGill University)
Exploring the RNA mutational landscape
Abstract

11:30
Closure of the workshop

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