Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data

9:00 - 10:00 (1h)

Keynote: Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Pier Palamara

10:00 - 11:00 (1h)

Population genetics

Nikolaos Alachiotis

› Using supervised machine learning methods to infer demographic history from genomic data - Arnaud Quelin, Éco-Anthropologie, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Unifying Ideas from the Sequentially Markovian Coalescence with Deep Learning for Population Genomic Inference - Kevin Korfmann, Technische Universität München = Technical University of Munich 10:30-11:00 (30min)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 (1h30)

Detecting positive selection

Flora Jay

› Scalable CNN-based classification of selective sweeps using derived allele frequencies - Sjoerd Van den Belt, University of Twente 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Detecting selective sweeps using FPGA-accelerated spiking convolutional neural networks - Hanqing Zhao, University of Twente 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Detecting Positive Selection using Convolutional Neural Networks - Charlotte West, European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton] 12:30-13:00 (30min)

13:00 - 14:30 (1h30)

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 (1h30)

Phylodynamics

Flora Jay

› Improving tree representation and neural network architecture for deep learning from phylogenies in phylodynamics and diversification studies - Manolo Perez, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Imperial College London 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Transformers for EpiDemiological DYnamics: from genomic data to epidemiological parameters - Vincent GAROT, Biologie Computationnelle et Quantitative = Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology, Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Assessing the power of artificial intelligence approaches for birth-death model classification - Pablo Gutiérrez de la Peña, Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC 15:30-16:00 (30min)

16:00 - 16:15 (15min)

Closing comments

16:15 - 18:00 (1h45)

After conference chill out (posters can still hang until 18h)

20:00 - 22:00 (2h)

Conference dinner downtown Heraklion

Planning