Syllabus

This syllabus is very tentative. Suggestions of changes are welcome and appreciated.

Week	Date	Lecture	Paper Discussion	Computer Lab
1	25/25. Sept	Introduction Spatial and temporal integrity Genetic data Basic analyses methods Genotyping error	Waples & Gaggiotti 2005 Excoffier & Heckel 2006 Pomanon et al. 2005	Microchecker, Pedant
2	2 / 3. Oct	PopGen Tutorial x2-tests, exact tests and permutation tests	Ryman & Jorde 2001, Raymond et al. 1997	GenePop, FSTAT
3	9 / 10. Oct	F statistics and genetic distances, AMOVA	Neigel 2003, Wilson et al. 2004	FSTAT, Arlequin
4	16 / 17 Oct	Estimation of power Correction for multiple tests	Ryman et al. 2006, Garcia 2004	Genepop, PowSim
5	23 / 24 Oct	Relatedness (preliminary)	Wilson & Ferguson 2002, Veliz et al. 2006	Kingroup, Cervus
6	30 / 31 Oct	Estimation of population size	Wang 05 Turner et al. (2002)	Ne Estimator, Bottleneck
7	6 / 7 Nov	Assignment methods	Lin et al. (2008) Ruzzante et al. (2006)	GeneClass, Structure
8	13 / 14 Nov	Landscape genetics	Storfer et al. 2006 Frantz et al. 2006	GenAlEx Alleles in Space
9	20 / 21 Nov	Selection	Vasemagi et al. 2005	FDist2
10	27 / 28 Nov	Thanksgiving
11	4 / 5 Dec	Coalescence, phylogeography	Palstra et al. 2007 Grant & Bowen 2006	DNASP, TCS, Migrate