MLSpeciationGenomics 2025

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Please find the Abstract booklet here.

Wednesday, 25th June 2025

Time Event
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-09:45 Workshop welcome session
09:45-10:30 Lecture 1: Mike Ritchie (St Andrews): Does experimental evolution recapitulate speciation genomics?
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 Lecture 2: Alex Suh (University of Bonn): The contribution of genomic (in)stability to population and species divergence
11:45-12:30 Contributed talks:
11:45-12:00 Francisco Ruiz-Ruano (Bonn): Evolutionary dynamics of GRCs in passerine birds
12:00-12:15 Diogo Ribeiro (St Andrews): Uncovering the architecture of selection from experimentally evolved populations with Machine Learning
12:15-12:30 Valeriia Telizhenko (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv): A Machine Learning approach to identifying recent selection in blue whale evolution
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:30 Workshop 1: Martin Kapun (Natural History Museum Vienna): From Museums to Microbes: A concise introduction to Museomics using Drosophila melanogaster and its symbionts as a model
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Lecture 3: Svitlana Braichenko (University of Edinburgh): Phylogenomics meets Deep Learning
17:00-19:00 Poster session: Bell Pettigrew Museum


Thursday, 26th June 2025

Time Event
09:00-09:45 Lecture 4: Christoph Mayer / Peter Arsic (Bonn): Basics in Neural Networks
09:45-10:30 Contributed talks
09:45-10:00 İdil Çağla Ertaş (Bonn): The genetic bases of quantitative morphological variation in a population of Drosophila
10:00-10:15 Nina Casillas (Bonn): Genomic and Ecological Insights into Biodiversity Decline: A Case Study of the Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata
10:15-10:30 Manel Ait El Hadj (St Andrews): Polymorphism-aware Framework to Analyse RNA-Seq Data for Trait Evolution Studies
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Workshop 2: Rui Borges (St Andrews): Detecting Targets of Selection in Experimental Evolution
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Workshop 3: Christoph Mayer / Peter Arsic (Bonn): Machine learning topics in sequence analyses
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Lecture 5: Manolo Perez (Imperial College London): PhyloCNN
17:00-18:30 Break
18:30-21:00 Dinner at Lower College Hall


Friday, 27th June 2025

Time Event
09:00-09:45 Lecture 6: Carolin Kosiol (St Andrews) Polymorphism-aware Phylogenetic Models and Selection
09:45-10:30 Contributed talks
09:45-10:00 Ioanna Kotari (Vienna): PoMo-cod: a polymorphism-aware phylogenetic codon model
10:00-10:15 Menno de Jong (Leipzig): Species delineation using genome-wide Dxy- and Fst-estimates
10:15-10:30 Yari Cerruti (St Andrews): Sequence composition and conservation predict the phenotypic relevance of transposable elements
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Workshop 4: Antonio Pacheco and Nick Bailey (St Andrews): DeepBlues Project
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Workshop 5: Carolin Kosiol, Manel El Ait Hadj, Omar Ruelas (St Andrews): PoMoBalance and RevBayes
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Discussion (All)
15:30-16:00 Coffee, End of conference, Hike along the beach if wanted by participants