Topics & Lectures
Evolutionary processes in ecological communities - Manolis Ladoukakis & Anastasia Gioti
Lecture 1: Microbial ecology from an evolutionary perspective. (Ladoukakis)
Lecture 2: Molecular ecology of microbes in the NGS era. (Gioti)
Practical 1: Calculating alpha and beta diversity from microbial community data (Ladoukakis)
Practical 2: Correlating community variation with environmental factors. (Gioti)
Major concepts in community ecology and biogeography - Korhan Ozkan
Lecture: Species environmental relationships and ecosystem interactions.
Practical: Multivariate methods in community ecology and niche estimation.
Species interactions in ecological networks - Emre Keskin
Lecture: DNA-Based Next Generation of bio-monitoring and community analyses.
Practical: eDNA metabarcoding and OTU clustering tests.
Bayesian models in ecology and evolution - Istem Fer
Lecture: Bayesian inference and numerical methods
Practical: Application of bayesian models using R
Reading material: link
Rpackages:
Genetics of populations - Efe Sezgin
Lecture: Molecular evolution and coalescent theory.
Practical: Drosophila and human population genetics
Reading material: link
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics and Applications - Bahar Patlar
Lecture: Quantitative genetics and response to selection in quantitative traits.
Practical: Quantitative genetics with R.
Reading material: link
Quantifying positive selection from genomic data - Pavlos Pavlidis
Lecture: Selective sweep localization in full genome data
Practical: Inference of population demography and selective sweep detection.
Analysis of ancient DNA - Nikos Psonis
Lecture: Introduction to ancient DNA and bioinformatic challenges
Practical: Computational tools for analysis of aDNA
Reading material and sex determination scripts: link
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