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Center for Population Biology Postdoc Workshops

 

  • Spring 2023 - Geometric Morphometrics Workshop:  Michael Yuan, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - CPB Workshop - May 29 and June 2, 2023:  This "Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics" workshop will be held at the end of Spring Quarter 2023.  This is a tool for incorporating 2D and 3D phenotypic shape data into projects.  The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the basic concepts, sampling design, data collection protocols, and multivariate analyses. 
  • Fall 2022 - SLiM Workshop:  Pavitra Muralidhar, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - CPB Workshop - November 4, 11, and 18, 2022:  This workshop will be an introduction to the SLiM simulation software. To give the official definition, "SLiM is an evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios" (software homepage).  It is an individual-based modelling tool for simulating evolutionary and ecological scenarios, whether that's for research, for teaching, or just for fun! The goal of this workshop will be to introduce people to SLiM, become familiar with the basics of how to use it, and get an impression of what SLiM can do for research questions.
  • Fall CPB Social Gathering:  September 30, 2022, held outdoors on the UC Davis campus, in the Biological Orchard Gardens (BOG).
  • Summer Seminar 2022 - CPB postdocs organized a seminar given by Ken Thompson, in 2342 Storer Hall on August 8, 2022.  This talk described work in threespine stickleback fish; and progress toward developing methods to distinguish epistatic incompatibility-selection from other forms of selection.
  • Summer Seminar 2022 - CPB postdocs organized a seminar given by Yuval Simons, a postdoc in the Pritchard Lab at Stanford, provided a seminar in 2342 Storer Hall on July 12, 2022.  This talk was titled, "Simple scaling laws control the architectures of complex traits." 
  • 2020  - An Introduction to Building Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution Workshop/Mini-Course - Matthew Osmond, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - November 2020:  This goal of this workshop/mini-course was to develop a better understanding of how to go from an idea to a system of equations that you can then analyze. This is one of the first steps in modelling, yet one of the most mysterious to many. The workshop was aimed at those with less modeling experience but encouraged all level of participants to gain perspectives from across the board for a fun, creative, and collaborative process, suitable for any career stage and any subdiscipline within ecology and evolution.  The workshop took place in 4 installments: 
    • Part 1: Intro (3-5PM Friday Nov 6)
      • Discuss background reading, see example problems
    • Part 2: Warmup questions (1-3PM Monday Nov 9)
      • Compare answers to homework problems
    • Part 3: Guess the model (1-3PM Monday Nov 16)
      • Write models described verbally in papers, compare with "truth"
    • Part 4: Create and exchange (3-5PM Friday Nov 20)
      • Create your own model, exchange written description with peer and compare model interpretations
  • 2020  CPB Graduate Student Workshop - Theme: Evolutionary Response to Environmental Variation and Change; with CPB Affiliate student speakers providing flash talks; and two guest speakers for the workshop - Dr. Megan Peterson, "Population persistence in a warming world", and Dr. John Kelly, "Predicting evolutionary change at the DNA level in natural Populations".  Workshop hosted by CPB and CPB Graduate Student Affiliates, Danielle De La Pascua, Madison Armstrong, Elena Suglia and Kelsey Lyberger - September 15 and 16, 2020.
  • 2017 CPB Workshop - Synthesis: The Intersection of Natural Selection & Reproductive Isolation - Organized by Katie Ferris, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow, May 25 and 26, 2017:  Three former CPB post-doctoral fellows, Leonie Moyle, Maria Servedio, and Rich Glor, as well as local CPB speakers, provided talks and participated in professional development activities with CPB graduate students and post-docs.  The general workshop schedule is outlined below:

    Thursday May 25th

    9am-12pm: Invited Talks

    1:30-3:00pm: Invited Talks

    3:00-5:00pm: Career panel and networking

    5-6:30pm: CPB Social

    Friday May 26th

    9am-12pm: Invited Talks

    1:30-3:00pm: Invited Talks

    3:00-5:00pm: Diversity in the Sciences activity and networking

    5-6:30pm: CPB Social

  • 2017  Introductory GIS Workshop in R, Kelsey Lyberger (Population Biology Graduate Student, UC Davis) - May 4, 2017. 
  • 2016  Disaster Stories: How to Embrace Failure in Science, Marjorie Weber (CPB Postdoc); featuring speakers Johanna Schmitt, Rick Karban, Sharon Strauss, Mark Schwartz, and Louie Yang - April 29, 2016.
  • 2015  Meta-analysis of Ecological and Evolutionary Data, Heather Kharaouba (CPB Postdoc) - April 2015.
  • 2015  Questions and Methods in Ecological Genetics, CPB Student-Led Mini Conference, sponsored by CPB.  Featured speakers David Lowry (Michigan State University), Jill Anderson (University of Georgia), and Neil Tsutsui (UC Berkeley) - February 18, 2015.
  • 2014  Mixed-Effects Models in R, Scott Burgess (CPB Postdoc).  April 24 and 25, 2014.
  • 2014  Phylogenetically Correct Analysis of Species Data in Ecology and Evolution, Luke Mahler (CPB Postdoc).  This workshop consisted of 3 sessions:  a lecture (which was the CPB Seminar for that week - April 2, 2014), and two tutorials (April 3 and 4, 2014). 
  • 2012  6th Bay Area Population Genomics (BAPG) Meeting; hosted by Alisa Sedghifar, Yaniv Brandvain, and Peter Ralph.  This meeting brings together graduate students, postdocs and PIs from around the Bay Area for a half-day meeting to share current research with an emphasis on graduate students and postdoc presentations, and provides an opportunity for interaction between members of a very strong community with interests in population genetics.
  • 2012 and 2011  Crash Course in R, Yaniv Brandvain (CPB Postdoc)
  • 2011  Hierarchical Modeling Workshop, sponsored by CPB, featured UC Davis speakers Richard McElreath (Dept. of Anthropology - "Hierarchical models: what and why?", and "A Bayesian approach to hierarchical modeling, using R to build our own estimator from scratch"); Parry Clarke (Dept. of Anthropology, "A maximum-likelihood approach to hierarchical modeling using R"), Andrew Latimer (Dept. of Plant Sciences - "Bayesian hierarchical models for multilevel data and simple process models", and "Implementing ), Michael Springborn (Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis, "Learning in a noisy environment: Adaptive management for inconvenient models" - January 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 2011.
  • 2010  Building Personal Bioinformatics Data Assembly Pipelines, David Plachetzki
  • 2010  Bay Area Biosystematists Meeting for a discussion of "Recent Advancements in Methods of Species Delimitation".  Talks by CPB faculty; Bruce Rannala, Brad Shaffer, and Phil Ward; October 19, 2020.
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