Dear Colleagues, We are now soliciting applications for the Quantitative Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics workshop at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. This is the second year we are offering this workshop. Last year's was a great success, and we would like to see the same high-level applicants in Okinawa this summer. We already have an excellent pool of lecturers (see below). I hope you can either apply to participate in the workshop, or bring this opportunity to the attention of talented graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and advanced undergraduates.
Yours, Alexander Mikheyev http://www.oist.jp/qecg2011/ May 16 - June 3, 2011. *OIST covers accommodation and travel expenses for all participants. Application deadline March 15, 2011.* *Confirmed Lecturers: <http://www.oist.jp/qecg2011/doku.php?id=People>* - Dan Andersson, *Uppsala Universitet*, *Gene amplification and adaptation in bacteria* - Philip Hastings, *Baylor College of Medicine*, *Mechanisms of CNV* - Joachim Hermisson, *University of Vienna*, *Population genetic models of adaptation* - Takehiko Kobayashi, *National Institute of Genetics, Japan*, *Repetitive genes & concerted evolution* - Thomas Lenormand, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, *Molecular basis of adaptation in mosquitoes* - Michael Lynch, *Indiana University*, *Recombination* - Gilean McVean, *Oxford*, *TBD* - Simon Myers, *Oxford*, *Genealogical methods for detecting selection and inference of admixture history* - Molly Przeworski, *University of Chicago*, *Distinguishing hitchhiking from background selection* - David Romero, *Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM*, *Gene conversion and the migrating Holliday junction* - Susan Rosenberg, *Baylor College of Medicine*, *DNA repair mechanisms* - Mikkel Schierup, *Aarhus University,* *Reconstructing pre-speciation recombination events* - Guy Sella, *Hebrew University of Jerusalem*, *Signatures of adaptation* - Yun Song, *UC Berkeley*, *Conditional sampling distributions in population genetics with recombination* - Joel Stavans, *Weizmann Institute of Science*, *Optical probes of recombination* - Clifford Zeyl, *Wake Forest University*, *Looking at the benefits of sex using experimental evolution approaches* OIST Summer School and Workshop: Quantitative Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics 2011 The loosely defined theme of the 2011 Summer School is the linkage and recombination in genome sequences, which will be explored from a quantitative and multidisciplinary perspective, and connections forged with parts of biology outside of genomics. The format of the summer school consists of a three-hour presentation in the morning, with coffee breaks, followed by an discussion in the afternoon, as well as group projects led by tutors. The summer school is aimed primarily at introducing approximately forty students and post-docs with quantitative backgrounds - not necessarily in biology - to the cutting edge of contemporary comparative and evolutionary genomics research. As such, tutorials will be offered to get participants with less-developed quantitative skills or sparse biological background up to speed insofar as possible; however, we hope that presentations will be intense and self-contained. *We are looking for a set of students with a broad range of backgrounds, experimentalist and theorist: for example, biology, chemistry, computer science, ecology, engineering, evolution, genomics, mathematics, medicine, or physics. The essential prerequisite is an enthusiasm to overcome traditional boundaries of your own field of specialization.* A small number of researchers at later stages of their careers may be invited to participate, particularly if we believe they can contribute to mediating the interdisciplinary dialog; such applicants should be certain to address this explicitly in their applications. *OIST is strongly committed to the advancement of women in the sciences, and women are especially encouraged to apply.* Okinawa is a subtropical divers' paradise of diverse ecology and distinctive beauty and cultural flavor. *OIST provides summer school students with accommodation at Seaside House and financial support for their travel. Students will be selected competitively based upon their completed applications, submitted by March 15, 2011 on our web site<http://www.oist.jp/qecg2011/doku.php?id=Application>. We also request that the applicants submit a recommendation letter from their advisor (see web site for details).*
