Course website: http://walnut.usc.edu/Members/magnus/teaching/spring-2008/bisc-499-special-topics

SVN repositary (assignments, copy of papers/slides): doc/bisc499/

Papers for each week (for course material check its website above):

January 15 (MN)

A brief introduction to the history of the subject

January 22 (SN)

Decomposing variance Hughes2007

January 29 (MN)

The Coalescent, Part 1

February 5 (MN)

The Coalescent, Part 2. Evans2006

February 12 (SN)

Emergency stand-in for MN

February 19 (SN)

Tatar1996 and Reynolds2007

February 26 (SN)

Mukai1972 and Shabalina1997

March 4 (SN)

Emergency stand-in for MN. Pauwels2008 and Gardner2007

March 11

The Coalescent with structure and with recombination. Voight2006 and Barreiro2008 and Sabeti2007

March 25

Begun2007, Lewontin1991 and Hahn2008

April 1

April 8

Begun2007, ClarkEtAl2007 and LohmuellerEtAl2008

April 15

SiebertsSchadt2007, LeRouzicEtAl2007 and Lynch2007

April 22

ThorgeirssonEtAl2008, WeedonEtAl2008, /research/ref1/Iles2008, nobody2007

April 29

/research/ref1/StinchcombeHoekstra2008/, /research/ref1/NoorFeder2006, /research/ref1/WhitakerBanfield2006, /research/ref1/GreenbergWu2006