SIB Days 2020: Evolutionary modelling with trees and traits
Channel: SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Date: 2020-07-01

Parallel Session 5: Evolution, Phylogeny & Population Genetics

Comparative genomic analyses among diverse species and within a species can illuminate the evolutionary forces driving how species have evolved and are evolving. Phylogenetics
forms a cornerstone of such analyses as it provides the evolutionary framework of the
relationships between species or individuals upon which many inferences are based. The
development of models and software to better understand the evolution of organisms aims
to take advantage of the growing amounts of genetic and genomic data that catalogues life
on our planet. This often involves taking into account the interplay of population structure,
trait architecture, and selection to disentangle causes and consequences. Also critical are
robust comparative methods from sequence alignment to phylogeny inference, as well as for inferring complex evolutionary histories. Delineating these histories also helps us understand the functional relationships between genes, genomes and species. Such approaches have important applications in epidemiology, public health and medicine, as well as in ecology and evolution.

Session Chairs: Tim Vaughan (Computational Evolution Group, D-BSSE, ETH Zurich), Gwénaëlle Bontonou (Evolutionary Genomics & Sensory Biology Group, University of Lausanne)

Talks (click to access specific sections of the talk)
Session Introduction 00:00
Gene duplication and gain in Atriophallophorus winterbourni and other major parasitic trematodes contributes to adaptation, Natalia Zajac, Laboratory of Computational Evolutionary Biology, University of Lausanne 02:23
Modeling the effects of mutation bias on adaptive evolution, Alejandro V Cano, Computational Biology Group, ETH Zurich 14:26
Impact of MDR-TB strain background on transmission fitness loss, Julija Pecerska, Applied Computational Genomics Team, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Wädenswil 19:47
Phylogeny-driven and alignment-free protein family assignment is an accurate and scalable alternative to methods relying merely on closest sequencem Victor Rossier, Laboratory of Computational Evolutionary Biology, University of Lausanne 26:07
AncesTree: an interactive immunoglobulin lineage tree visualizer, Mathilde Foglierini, Bioinformatics Core Unit, Institute of Oncology Research, Bellinzona 31:39
Ancient population genomics of Brazilian Botocudo groups, Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos, Evolutionary Genomics, University of Lausanne 37:45
Genomic tales: An history of European barn owls, Tristan Cumer, Population Genetics and Genomics Group, University of Lausanne 49:02


About the SIB Days: this internal conference of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is organized every two years. Its ambition? To give a voice to SIB's 80 Groups across Switzerland, through a diversity of bioinformatics topics, and to offer its 800 SIB Members an opportunity to meet and learn about each other’s research and activities in a friendly atmosphere. Due to this year’s events, the conference has taken place virtually for the first time, on 8-10 June 2020. Most of the talks could be made public post-event.


Read more about the SIB Days: https://www.sib.swiss/about-sib/news/10713-virtual-sib-days-2020-swiss-bioinformatics-highlights-recorded-sessions