On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to announce the 
workshop "Polygenic adaptation: from quantitative genetics to population 
genomics", part of the QLife Quantitative Biology Winter School Series.

Topic: Adaptation to novel environments depends on many alleles with 
largely undetectable fitness effects. With the advance of DNA sequencing 
technologies, the combination of genome-wide association analyses with 
genomic prediction methods has become the state-of-the-art approach to 
link adaptive trait responses to genetic changes at the molecular level. 
The workshop will introduce students to evolutionary theory and the 
tools employed to test alternative models of polygenic adaptation. 
Current advances in detecting polygenic adaptation in experimental and 
natural populations will be discussed. The course will introduce the 
participants to the analysis of phenomic and genomic data covering the 
latest software.

When and where: March 10-14, 2025; Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 Rue 
d'Ulm, 75005 Paris - France.

Faculty: Neda BARGHI, Vienna/Ploen; Nicholas BARTON, Vienna; Timothée 
FLUTRE, Paris; Frédéric GUILLAUME, Helsinki; Susan JOHNSTON, Edinburgh; 
François MALLARD, Paris
Katrina McGUIGAN, Brisbane; Luisa PALLARES, Tübingen; Patrick PHILLIPS, 
Eugene;  Christian SCHLÖTTERER, Vienna; Bertrand SERVIN, Toulouse; Erik 
SVENSSON, Lund; Jacqueline SZTEPANACZ, Toronto; Henrique TEOTÓNIO, 
Paris; Céline TEPLITSKY, Montpellier; Pierre de VILLEMEREUIL, Paris; Ben 
WÖLFL, Vienna

Organizers: Patrick CHARNAY, Paris; Christian SCHLÖTTERER, Vienna; 
Henrique TEOTÓNIO, Paris

Format: The course will include introductory and research lectures in 
the mornings, followed by computer practicals in the afternoons. The 
evenings will include keynote speaker seminars and poster presentations 
by the students. Common lunches and dinners with the speakers and 
instructors will foster informal discussions.

Public: The winter school is limited to 25 participants. It is open to 
advanced master students, PhD students,  as well as postdocs and junior 
scientists, with backgrounds in life sciences, physics, computer science 
or mathematics.

Requirements: Strong interest in evolutionary genetics, and experience 
in file manipulation under Unix/Linux and Python or R programming.

Apply by January 8, 2025, at : https://forms.office.com/e/1VySeNcY0Y. A
participation fee of 150 euro includes access to materials, lunches
and some dinners Monday to Friday. Please send a CV, a motivation
letter and a supporting letter from a supervisor as a single pdf file
with "Qlife Polygenic Adaptation Winter School2025_LASTNAME" as
subject header to Aida.Fakhr@curie.fr. Informal inquiries are welcome:
teotonio@bio.ens.psl.eu

Additional information including a detailed program at: 
https://www.edu.bio.ens.psl.eu/spip.php?article287

Henrique Teotónio
Institut de Biologie de l'ENS
46 Rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, France
https://www.ibens.ens.fr/?rubrique28

teotonio@bio.ens.psl.eu

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