Program

Introduction

 

topic

type

hours

day

-       General Introduction (laying out the topic)

Lecture

1

1

-       Data types and formats: let’s have a look! Version

Lecture/Demonstration

1.5

1

-       Data pre-processing (manipulation, filtering, imputation, transformation)

Lecture

2

1

-       Practical pre-processing (Plink, Zanardi, Beagle, KNNI)

Lab

3

1/2

 

Population Genetics and Signatures of Selection

 

topic

type

hours

day

-       General Introduction

Lecture

0.5

2

-       General background

-       Examples of applications in human, animal and plant genetics

Lecture

2

2

-       SNP based methods vs. traditional molecular markers vs. haplotype based methods

Lecture

1.5

2

-       Wrap up discussion Day 2

Discussion

0.5

2

 

 

 

 

-       Hands on practice detecting signatures of selection

Lab

2.5

3

-       Landscape genomics

Lecture

1

3

-       Hands on correlative approaches

Lab

2

3

-       Wrap up discussion Day 3

Discussion

0.5

3

 

 

 

GWAS

 

topic

type

hours

day

-       General background

-       Examples of applications in human, animal and plant genetics

Lecture

1.5

4

-       The basic model

Lecture

1.5

4

-       Practical GWAS with R     

Lab

2.5

4

-       Questions time

Discussion

0.5

4

 

 

 

 

-       Power and significance

Lecture

1

5

-       Pitfalls and alternatives

Lecture + Demonstration

2

5

-       Hands-on ROH-based alternative approaches

Lab

1.5

5

-       Wrap-up discussion on GWAS

Discussion

1.5

5