BIOL 6990 
Graduate Seminars in Population Genetics
University of Vermont

Spring 2025 (1 credit)

M 3:30 pm-4:45 pm

PATRICK LEAHY BUILDING 235 

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Topics vary from year to year. 

2025 Topic: Inferring selection in spatial data

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This course is an advanced graduate seminar where students will engage in hands-on analyses of genomic data.

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For the 2025 seminar, the class will engage with data from the harvester Ant Veromessor pergandei collected across multiple sites in the American West.  This species is notorious for its complex colony social structures whereby some colonies have one queen, and others have multiple queens. We will capitalize on this beautiful biology to uncover the genetic basis of this complex trait.  The course aims to go “from data to insights” using genomic sequences collected across ecologically heterogeneous landscapes.

 

This course will take advantage of computational resources through the Vermont Advance Computing Center (VACC). The students are expected to have familiarity with the VACC. In addition to the hands-on components, trainees will read and discuss primary literature, as well as ecological and evolutionary theory. ​​