Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research

&

Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies

 

 

Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology

 

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camp Evolution II

 

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Last updated April 17, 2006

 

 

Sede-Boker Campus, April 2-6, 2006

 

Organizer: Ariel Novoplansky

 

 

 

 

The workshop featured a lecture series by Fyodor Kondrashov, Section on Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, USA on

 

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

 

as well as presentations by other participants.

 

The workshop dwelled on evolutionary aspects of genomics that are, or soon will be, relevant to ecological studies.

 

A. Lectures

 

1. Studying selection at the molecular level (4 hours):

  • How negative selection reveals functionality in the genome
  • How the study of Darwinian selection at the molecular level may lead to generalizations regarding ecological adaptations.

 

2. The role of gene duplication in Evolution of genomes and ecological adaptations (3 hours).

            Theoretical expectations of selection pressure changes due do gene duplications

            Examples of adaptive gene duplications to changes in the environment

 

3. Gene expression analysis in ecology (2 hours)

            How many and what kinds of genes change their expression when the environmental conditions vary

 

4. "Environmental sequencing” (2 hours).

            A review of successful and failed projects of environmental sequencing

            What environmental conditions to consider when choosing what to sequence

 

5. Genomics and recent speciation (2 hours).

            Using genomics tools to study recent speciation events

 

 

B. Practical

 

  1. Introduction to Perl (2 hours): the basics of working with sequences.

Getting familiar with hashes, subroutines and the matching operator

 

  1. Common tools in studying strength of selection and sequence homologies (2 hours): PAML, MEGA, BLAST, BLAT).

Running programs but focusing on their integration in Perl

 

  1. Essential genomic data bases (1 hour): GenBank and UCSC.

How and where to choose the data you need, and what is available

 

The practical sessions will be held throughout the workshop. The goal is that participants will be able to independently carry out genome-wide studies using publicly-available sequence and expression databases.

 

 

Getting to Midreshet Ben-Gurion and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies

 

 

Timetable

 

 

Sat, April 1

Sun, April 2

Mon, April 3

Tues, April 4

Wed, April 5

Thurs, April 6

08:00 – 08:20

 

 

 

 

Arrival and

check-in

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

08:30 – 10:15

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

10:15 – 10:45

Early arrival

10:45 – 12:30

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

14:00 – 18:00

Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics

Excursion:

Nachal Karkash

Excursion:

Ein Yorkeam

Excursion:

Nachal Ardon-

Har Harut

 

Checkout

19:00 – 20:00

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Party Dinner

20:30 – 21:30

 

Osnat Gillor

BIDR, BGU

 

The rules of microbial warfare: aspects in bacteriocins ecology and

evolution

 

 

Yaakov Ben-Natan

Superlearn Ltd

 

Applications of machine learning in Evolution, genetics and ecology

 

Rivka Hadas Volcani

 

 

The Israeli Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops

 

Elhanan Borenstein TAU

 

Adaptive Evolution of Mutational Robustness: Moving Towards Staying Put

21:30 - ??

Social.

Social

Social

Social

 

 

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