Workshop Speciation Genomics and Machine Learning

[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. Please see the program for the lectures and hands-on sessions here

https://github.com/ckosiol/MLSpeciationGenomics/blob/main/program.md

There is only a few slots left for contributed talks but we will keep the submission for poster abstracts open till the deadline on 2nd June 2025.

*** 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.

*** Important dates ***

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.

Reduced rate accommodation: 1st June 2025
Registration closes: 2nd June 2025
Conference: 24th- 27th June 2025

For registration use the following link at

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

For abstract submission, please send an email to: MLSpeciati...@gmail.com

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/