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http://www.evolutionmeetings.org/pre-conference.html

Evolution 2017 - June 23-27 Portland, Oregon

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS & SATELLITE EVENTS

2) JoeFest: a symposium to honor Joe Felsenstein

Thursday, June 22, 9 am - 5 pm with optional evening reception, Rm. B113-114; Cost: $20 (+$30 optional reception; reception includes two drinks and appetizers), registration required (during conference registration). Open to everyone. Maximum enrollment: 300 (first-come, first-served).
Organizer: Michael Turelli (UC Davis), Monty Slatkin (UC Berkeley), Ray Huey (U. Washington)
If you want to attend JoeFest only (i.e. not the main Evolution conference), then please email Michael for instructions concerning how to do this.

Schedule:

• 9:00 Lee Felsenstein, The Fonly Institute. The early years: an appreciation of Joey Felsenstein
• 9:20 Michael Turelli, UC Davis. A star is born
• 9:40 Bill Hill, University of Edinburgh. Joe Felsenstein's Hill-Robertson Effect
• 10:00 Ray Huey, University of Washington. Comparative biology: before, during, and after Felsenstein 1985

10:20 — COFFEE BREAK

• 10:50 Wayne Maddison, University of British Columbia. "Ask Joe"
• 11:10 Jeff Thorne, North Carolina State. Phylogenetic inference of interlocus gene conversion
• 11:30 Peter Beerli, Florida State University. Everything you always wanted to know about frogs/computers/population genetics but were afraid to ask
• 11:50 Mary Kuhner/Jon Yamato, University of Washington. The insane geometry of tree space: early development of genealogy samplers

12:10 — LUNCH

• 1:40 Mark Kirkpatrick, University of Texas, Austin. The war between the sexes: genome evolution under sexual antagonism
• 2:00 Fred Allendorf, University of Montana. Population genomics: Do we really need theory?
• 2:20 Steve Arnold, Oregon State. Quantitative genetics on evolutionary timescales
• 2:40 Scott Edwards, Harvard. The tree thinker and the long way to amphioxus

3:00 — COFFEE BREAK

• 3:30 Shozo Yokoyama, Emory. Evolution by molecular interaction
• 3:50 Ted Garland, UC Riverside. Zen and the art of phylogenetically independent contrasts
• 4:10 Ruth Shaw, University of Minnesota. Evaluating the capacity for ongoing adaptation
• 4:30 Monty Slatkin, UC Berkeley. Isolation by distance and time--another pain in the torus

5:30-7:30  Reception (separate registration $30, private room at Altabira, across the street from the OCC, includes two drinks and appetizers)