Workshop: Speciation Genomics & Machine Learning 25th-27th June 2025

[Carolin Kosiol]

*** Call for Participation and Abstracts***

We are happy to announce the workshop "Short and long timescales in speciation genomics: Machine Learning approaches" (ML Speciation Genomics)  to be held on 24th-27th June 2025 at University of St Andrews/ Scotland.

*** About the Workshop ***

How new species emerge is one of the big questions in evolutionary biology. Speciation genomics investigates the genetic basis of this process. Until recently researchers were only able to sequence a few individuals at a single time-point. Yet, with the growing affordability of genome sequencing, it is now possible to consider multiple individuals at multiple points in time.

These multiple time-points could include samples from Natural History Museums, they could be multiple generations of a population housed in controlled laboratory environments or diverse samples collected from the wild. This workshop will bring researchers together to make the best use of the new data. We will have introductory lectures, contributed talks as well as hands-on sessions on museum genomics, phylogenomics and machine learning methods.

We have conference rates for students of £30 and £70 for all academics and industry participants. Reduced rate conference accommodation can be booked at Agnes Blackadder Hall.

*** Faculty ***

Nick Bailey, Rui Borges (University of St Andrews); Svitlana Braichenko (University of Edinburgh); Martin Kapun (Natural History Museum of Vienna); Carolin Kosiol (St Andrews);  Manolo Perez (Imperial College London); Antonio Pacheco, Mike Ritchie (St Andrews); Alexander Suh (Research Museum Koenig Bonn) among others.

*** Important Dates ***

Registration opens: 17th March 2025
Abstract submission: 11th April 2025 (please send an email to: MLSpeciati...@gmail.com )

Reduced rate accommodation: 24th April 2025
Registration closes: 2nd June 2025
Conference: 24th- 27th June 2025

For registration and more information see 

https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/264/home

https://ckosiol.github.io/MLSpeciationGenomics/

Looking forward to seeing you in St Andrews!

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Dr Carolin Kosiol
Reader in Bioinformatics
Centre for Biological Diversity
School of Biology
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TF, UK
ck...@st-andrews.ac.uk

https://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/kosiol-lab/

[Carolin Kosiol]

*** Call for Participation and Abstracts***

We are happy to announce the workshop "Short and long timescales in speciation genomics: Machine Learning approaches" (ML Speciation Genomics)  to be held on 24th-27th June 2025 at University of St Andrews/ Scotland. We have extended the deadline for abstract submission to * May 13th*.

*** About the Workshop ***

How new species emerge is one of the big questions in evolutionary biology. Speciation genomics investigates the genetic basis of this process. Until recently researchers were only able to sequence a few individuals at a single time-point. Yet, with the growing affordability of genome sequencing, it is now possible to consider multiple individuals at multiple points in time.

These multiple time-points could include samples from Natural History Museums, they could be multiple generations of a population housed in controlled laboratory environments or diverse samples collected from the wild. This workshop will bring researchers together to make the best use of the new data. We will have introductory lectures, contributed talks as well as hands-on sessions on museum genomics, phylogenomics and machine learning methods.

We have conference rates for students of £30 and £70 for all academics and industry participants. Reduced rate conference accommodation can be booked at Agnes Blackadder Hall.

*** Faculty ***

Nick Bailey, Rui Borges (University of St Andrews); Svitlana Braichenko (University of Edinburgh); Martin Kapun (Natural History Museum of Vienna); Carolin Kosiol (St Andrews);  Manolo Perez (Imperial College London); Antonio Pacheco, Mike Ritchie (St Andrews); Alexander Suh (Research Museum Koenig Bonn) among others.

*** Important Dates ***

Registration opens: 17th March 2025

Abstract submission: 13th May 2025 (please send an email to: MLSpeciati...@gmail.com )