EEID workshop schedule 2012
Instructors
- Mike Antolin, Colorado State University,
michael.antolin@colostate.edu (evolution) - Roman Biek, University of Glasgow,
r.biek@bio.gla.ac.uk (evolution) - Ben Bolker, McMaster University (ecology)
- Matt Ferrari, Penn State University (ecology)
- Christian Gunning
- Aaron King, University of Michigan (ecology)
- Jennie Lavine, University of Michigan (ecology)
- Micaela Martinez-Bakker, University of Michigan (tutorial)
- Helen Wearing, University of New Mexico (ecology)
- Colleen Webb, Colorado State University,
ctwebb@lamar.colostate.edu (evolution)
Saturday 19 May
- 9:00-10:30 Roll call, introduction, vocabulary of R [Mike, Matt]
- 10:30 coffee
- 10:00-11:00 R tutorial: review 1-6 [Micaela + ?]
- 11:00-12:00 R tutorial: review 7 (random numbers), 8 (matrix), 9 (loops) [Micaela + ?]
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-14:30 Presentation/discussions of data (evolution group meeting separately: see Mike)
- 14:30-17:00 R tutorial: 10 (plotting), 11 (functions), 12 (ODEs)
- 17:00-18:00 Discussion of workshop datasets
Sunday 20 May
Evolution
- 8:30-12:00 Estimating and interpreting phylogenies, ancestral states and coalescent models [Roman]
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-17:00 Modeling Adaptive Processes in Pathogens [Colleen]
- 17:00 Student group initial presentations: propose possible questions/analyses
Ecology
- 8:30-10:30 Maximum likelihood estimation [Matt]
- 10:30-11:00 coffee
- 11:30-12:30 Simulation and SIR models [Helen]
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:00 Student group proposals
- 15:00-16:00 Exploratory data analysis,
ggplot [Jennie] - 16:00-17:00 Student group work and catchup
Monday 21 May
Evolution
- 8:30-12:00 Population genetics and formulating hypotheses [Mike]
- Population genetic structure of hosts and pathogens
- Using assignment probabilities for pathogen data
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-17:00 Student groups
- Work, work, work.
Ecology
- 8:30-10:00 Trajectory matching [Aaron]
- 10:00-10:30 coffee
- 10:30-12:30 Generalized linear (mixed) models [Ben]
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:30 Advanced Topics: possibly
- stochastic dynamic models
- state-space models
- More on GLMMs
- High-performance computation (big data sets, large/slow analyses)
- 15:30-18:00 Student groups
- Work, work, work
Tuesday 22 May
Both sections
- 8:30-15:00 Student groups
- Work, work, work, think hard, work some more.
- 12:00-13:30 Lunch
- 15:00-17:00 Student presentations
- 10 minutes per group to present results at the end