Dear all, sorry for any cross-posting. With Daniel Wegmann, we are organizing a workshop on Ancient DNA Analyses from Sept 1 to Sept 5 2024 at the Gemmi pass (https://www.gemmi.ch/summer/hotel/?L=2) above Leukerbad in the Swiss Alps. We have a great list of invited speakers : Prof. Joachim Burger, University of Mainz (DE) Dr. Christine Grossen, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (CH) Dr. Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE) Prof. Eline Lorenzen, Natural History Museum of Denmark (DK) Prof. John Novembre, University of Chigaco (USA) Prof. Martin Sikora, University of Copenhagen (DK) The first day will be organized in the form of a practicals to introduce students to ancient DNA genotyping and demographic inferences with ATLAS and fastsimcoal2, respectively. The next two days will be devoted to talks and break out sessions and a hike will follow a synthesis on the final day Registrations are open until July 15th on https://biologie.cuso.ch/?id=1128&tx_displaycontroller[showUid]=7129. Note that there is a limit of 35 students for the workshop, which will contribute to the promotion of interactions with the speaker ans organizers. Hope to see you up there in this beautiful setting Laurent Excoffier Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG) Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern 6, Baltzerstrasse, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Tel: +41 31 684 30 31 Email: laurent.excoffier@unibe.ch http://cmpg.iee.unibe.ch Computational Population Genetics Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) https://www.sib.swiss/laurent-excoffier-group Laurent Excoffier (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)