This course aims at providing a background in Evolution and Population Genetics. Most of the classes will be based on practical exercises in Population Genetics. Lectures summarizing the theory and explaining how this applies to evolutionary biology will be usually hold after the practical classes to teach you how population genetics can help to answer questions in biology.
Some of the lectures will be provided in a form of streaming videos: you will find the links on this website and be warned through this website when it will be available.
Practical classes will be "normal" sessions, with the professor in the classroom with you. You will be asked to prepare some of the exercises at home before the class. Make sure to do it, this is important if you want to follow the classes and cover all the topics of the course.
Before the first session, you will have to work on a few exercises, just to make sure that you have all basic knowledge in probability calculations. We will provide here a serie of 3 exercices and their corrections, as well as a form summarizing all basic tools in maths and probability that will be needed throughout the course.
Once the theory will be acquired, you will work within small groups of students on a project: you will choose your own question in evolutionary biology and you will build a population genetics model in order to explore your question, tutored by one professor.
Details about the dates and locations of the first classes will be released here very soon.