We are pleased to announce the return of the 2025 Evolutionary
Quantitative Genetics Workshop (EQG25) at a new location, scenic Mountain
Lake Biological Station in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. This
five-day workshop has been given yearly since 2011-2019 and virtually in
2021-2022 under the leadership of Dr. Joe Felsenstein and Dr. Stevan J
Arnold, most recently at Friday Harbor Labs. Steve and Joe have had to
take a step back in organizing the workshop, but we will rely heavily
on the groundwork they have built for this course; with Dr. Felsenstein
participating virtually.

This years' workshop will be led by Dr. Josef Uyeda (Virginia Tech)
and Dr. Fabio Machado (Oklahoma State U.), with additional instructors
Drs. Pat Carter (Washington State U.), Jacqueline Sztepanacz (U. of
Toronto), Laura Alencar (Yale), and  Joel McGlothlin (Virginia Tech)
joining us at MLBS.

Dates of instruction: Monday, June 9th - Friday, June 13th, 2025
(five-day workshop)
Location: Mountain Lake Biological Station, Pembroke, VA
Enrollment limit: 20
Application Deadline: April 4, 2025, 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Cost: The cost is $375. The fee pays for all housing accommodations
(June 8-14), meals, lecturer expenses, facilities, administration, and
travel between MLBS and the Roanoke Airport, arriving Sunday June 8th and
departing Saturday June 14th. It does NOT cover airfare or other travel
expenses to Roanoke. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance
or wait list standing by April 11th, and the tuition fee will be paid
after the participant has confirmed that they will attend.

Who should apply: The intended participants for this workshop are
graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members in
evolutionary biology, particularly those interested in big questions in
trait evolution.

For more information, including the registration link, please visit:
https://eqgw.github.io

The workshop will teach evolutionary frameworks for studying trait
evolution from micro to macroevolutionary scales. We will cover the
basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics in
microevolutionary studies before transitioning to teaching phylogenetic
comparative methods for studying trait evolution over macroevolutionary
scales. Our primary aims are to build bridges between the traditionally
separate disciplines of quantitative genetics and phylogenetic comparative
methods, contextualize each others research in the outstanding questions
across scales, and learn cutting edge computational methods of analysis
of continuously-varying traits.

For questions, please contact Josef Uyeda, juyeda@vt.edu

"Uyeda, Josef" <juyeda@vt.edu>

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