Workshop at Querétaro, Mexico, February 5-9, 2024
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Ben Haller
Dec 13, 2023, 8:29:55 PM12/13/23
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Hi folks!
I'm excited to announce a new SLiM workshop in Querétaro, Mexico, February 5-9, 2024 – less than two months from now! Apologies for the short notice, this plan came together quite recently. It will be at UNAM Juriquilla, the Juriquilla campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Querétaro. The host institution is LIIGH, the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research in Querétaro, and the local workshop host is Viridiana Villa, villa.i...@gmail.com.
As background: SLiM is a software package for creating evolutionary models/simulations that are individual-based and genetically explicit. It is scriptable, flexible, fast, free, open-source, and includes an interactive graphical modeling environment. You can read more about it on its home page (https://messerlab.org/slim/).
This workshop is open for registration NOW. It will be free, and open to participants outside of the hosting institution. HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available. I do expect this workshop to fill, and the timeframe is unusually short, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible. Applicants from the host institution will have registration priority for the next week (until the end of December 20th), and other applicants will be put on standby. After that one-week period, the workshop will revert to first-come-first-served, and people will be admitted in the order in which they applied. (Please DO NOT make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.)
To apply to this workshop, please send an email to Viri (email address above) and myself (bha...@mac.com). Please include the info below:
(1) your name, (2) your university or institutional affiliation including the name of the lab you are in, (3) a link to a research website or similar academic page, if you have one, (4) a 1-2 sentence description of your level of experience with SLiM and any other forward genetic simulation software, if any, (5) a 1-2 sentence summary of why you want to attend the workshop (i.e., the connection to your research), (6) 1-2 sentences about any specific topics within SLiM that you hope to learn about in the workshop, and (7) A sentence stating that you are up-to-date on your COVID vaccinations, to the extent possible for you (I realize vaccine availability is lower in Mexico, but I would like to keep everyone healthy if I can). Note that you will be responsible for your own lodging and your own transportation. Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html. Please do not apply to the workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted.
The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models. We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics. There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me, and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop. The workshop will be taught principally using SLiMgui, SLiM's graphical modeling environment. SLiMgui is cross-platform on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Every attendee will need their own laptop with SLiM and SLiMgui installed (see the info for attendees page for more information on software and hardware requirements). Loaner laptops are sometimes available for workshops, for those who do not have one; please let us know if you will need one.
Note that there are also four workshops scheduled in Europe for early 2024 (https://groups.google.com/g/slim-announce/c/ElPTKb3xxLw/m/k6quOWlHAAAJ); they are all full, however, unfortunately. Demand is high at the moment.
Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such. Also, I'm hoping to continue doing workshops in future; if you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list).
Cheers,
Benjamin C. Haller
Messer Lab
Cornell University
I'm excited to announce a new SLiM workshop in Querétaro, Mexico, February 5-9, 2024 – less than two months from now! Apologies for the short notice, this plan came together quite recently. It will be at UNAM Juriquilla, the Juriquilla campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Querétaro. The host institution is LIIGH, the International Laboratory for Human Genome Research in Querétaro, and the local workshop host is Viridiana Villa, villa.i...@gmail.com.
As background: SLiM is a software package for creating evolutionary models/simulations that are individual-based and genetically explicit. It is scriptable, flexible, fast, free, open-source, and includes an interactive graphical modeling environment. You can read more about it on its home page (https://messerlab.org/slim/).
This workshop is open for registration NOW. It will be free, and open to participants outside of the hosting institution. HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available. I do expect this workshop to fill, and the timeframe is unusually short, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible. Applicants from the host institution will have registration priority for the next week (until the end of December 20th), and other applicants will be put on standby. After that one-week period, the workshop will revert to first-come-first-served, and people will be admitted in the order in which they applied. (Please DO NOT make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.)
To apply to this workshop, please send an email to Viri (email address above) and myself (bha...@mac.com). Please include the info below:
(1) your name, (2) your university or institutional affiliation including the name of the lab you are in, (3) a link to a research website or similar academic page, if you have one, (4) a 1-2 sentence description of your level of experience with SLiM and any other forward genetic simulation software, if any, (5) a 1-2 sentence summary of why you want to attend the workshop (i.e., the connection to your research), (6) 1-2 sentences about any specific topics within SLiM that you hope to learn about in the workshop, and (7) A sentence stating that you are up-to-date on your COVID vaccinations, to the extent possible for you (I realize vaccine availability is lower in Mexico, but I would like to keep everyone healthy if I can). Note that you will be responsible for your own lodging and your own transportation. Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html. Please do not apply to the workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted.
The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models. We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics. There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me, and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop. The workshop will be taught principally using SLiMgui, SLiM's graphical modeling environment. SLiMgui is cross-platform on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Every attendee will need their own laptop with SLiM and SLiMgui installed (see the info for attendees page for more information on software and hardware requirements). Loaner laptops are sometimes available for workshops, for those who do not have one; please let us know if you will need one.
Note that there are also four workshops scheduled in Europe for early 2024 (https://groups.google.com/g/slim-announce/c/ElPTKb3xxLw/m/k6quOWlHAAAJ); they are all full, however, unfortunately. Demand is high at the moment.
Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such. Also, I'm hoping to continue doing workshops in future; if you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list).
Cheers,
Benjamin C. Haller
Messer Lab
Cornell University
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