The Tartu Winter school on Evolution, Genomics and Medicine 2023 

The Tartu Winter school on Evolution, Genomics and Medicine 2023 

4-8 December 2023, online workshop

This is the third school of a series of annual international courses that brings together evolution, genetics and medicine. The school is organised by the cGEM group at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia within the frames of H2020 grant no 810645 (www.cgem.ut.ee). 

Programme 
The course is focussed on methods and resources for identifying the present-day consequences of past natural selection for phenotypic variation and susceptibility to disease, and will cover advanced methods for inferring evolutionary histories from genomics data and linking them to large-scale genomic and functional datasets. Lectures introducing theoretical concepts and methods will be combined with workshops designed to give hands-on experience. 

Teachers 
Anders Eriksson: Evolutionary of complex traits 
Helle Sadam: Theory and applications of immunoprofiling  
Vasili Pankratov: Tree-based based methods of evolutionary inference 
Michael Dannemann and Danat Yermakovich: Introgression from archaic humans 
Mayukh Mondal: Deep learning methods for evolutionary inference 

The school will be held online December 4 – 8 and will be free of charge.  

Application 

The course is aimed at PhD students of mathematics and bioinformatics with an interest in evolution. We also welcome students from biological and medical backgrounds with sufficient background in computational analysis, advanced undergraduates, and postdocs.  

Applications are to be sent by email to merit.kreitsberg@ut.ee. The application should contain: 

• Full contact data (name, affiliation, postal address, email address) 
• A brief CV containing prior studies and/or positions 
• A one-paragraph description of scientific interest and motivation 
• List of publications (if any) 

Please send all relevant information in one pdf file (not in the email text). The deadline for applications is November 13 and we shall notify all applicants by November 17. 

Please do not hesitate to contact the organisers for any questions (Dr Anders Eriksson, anders.eriksson@ut.ee, or Merit Kreitsberg, merit.kreitsberg@ut.ee).