Deadline for registration is approaching for the upcoming EMBO Practical Course "Population Genomics: background and tools" to be held in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples, Italy, 10-16 June 2024! IMPORTANT DATES for this Course: Deadline for applications: 16/02/2024 Latest notification of acceptance: 01/03/2024 Course dates: 10-16/06/2024 Registration fee waivers and child care grants available! Full details, including the course programme, invited speakers and the application form: https://meetings.embo.org/event/24-pop-genomics In this EMBO Practical Course, participants will learn fundamental concepts and advanced approaches to reconstruct the demographic history of populations and infer natural selection, using both classic and machine learning-based techniques. Participants will also learn the essential and advanced programming skills required to run the analyses related to the concept presented, with a special focus on machine learning. Keynote lectures focused on major achievements and future perspectives of population genomics will complement the training. Lectures and practicals are delivered by experienced outstanding and inspiring speakers. We expect participants to become fully confident in running analyses on their own after attending the course. This course aims at evolutionary biologists who already have basic bioinformatics skills. Good knowledge of R is a pre-requisite and knowledge of Python is a plus. Ph.D. students and Postdoc researchers will benefit the most out of this course, but applications from all candidates will be evaluated in their context. Chiara Batini, University of Leicester, UK Vincenza Colonna, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT Andrea Manica, University of Cambridge, UK "Batini, Chiara (Dr.)" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)