Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology

MCEB - Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology
21-25 June 2015 - Porquerolles Island, South of France.

Webpage: http://www.lirmm.fr/mceb2015/

Pre-registration deadline: February 10th
Notification to applicants: February 28th
Final list of attendees: April 1st

Scope: Mathematical and computational tools and concepts form
an essential basis for modern evolutionary studies. The goal
of the MCEB conference (at its 7th edition) is to bring together
scientists with diverse backgrounds to present recent advances
and discuss open problems in the field of mathematical and
computational evolutionary biology. The theme of this year’s
edition will be new data, new questions, new methods. New
generation sequencing techniques have multiplied not just
the amount, but also the types of genetic data produced,
giving rise to new questions, and new methodologies to answer
them. These methodologies are often cross-disciplinary, with
applications to diverse research topics. General concepts, models,
methods and algorithms will also be presented and discussed,
just as during the previous conference editions.

Where and when: Porquerolles Island, near Hyères, in the
South of France, 21-25 June 2015.

Cost: Conference fees including accommodation for four nights,
meals, coffee breaks, etc., will be between 300€ and 630€, all
inclusive, and will vary depending on the room. PhD students
and postdocs will benefit of the cheapest rooms.

Keynote speakers:

David Bryant - http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/~dbryant/
University of Otago, NZ
Recovering phylogeny and demographics from SNPs: prospects and limitations

Jukka Corander - http://www.helsinki.fi/bsg/
Bayesian Statistics Group, University of Helsinki, FI
ABC meets machine learning - fitting intractable models to genome data

Asger Hobolth - http://www.daimi.au.dk/~asger/
Bioinformatics Research Center (BiRC), Aarhus University, DK
Modelling DNA sequence evolution within and between species

Philippe Lemey
https://rega.kuleuven.be/cev/ecv/lab-members/PhilippeLemey.html
Rega Institute, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, BE
Data integrating in viral evolutionary inference: from spatial dynamics
to trait evolution

Bernard Moret - http://lcbb.epfl.ch/
Laboratory for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, EPFL, CH
Phylogenetic Transfer of Knowledge

Ludovic Orlando - http://lcbb.epfl.ch/
Center for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, DK
Ancient DNA: from very old molecules to genomes and epigenomes

Molly Przeworski - http://przeworski.c2b2.columbia.edu/
Columbia University, New york, USA
A population-genetic approach to the study of mutation and recombination
in humans

For more information, visit the website at:
http://www.lirmm.fr/mceb2015/

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