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Day 1: Ecology
09:00 - 10:00 Introduction to the course and participants
10:00 - 11:00 Lecture and discussion on ecology
11:00 - 12:00 Exercises, journal club, wrap-up
Topics: population dynamics, competition and coexistence, predator-prey interactions, structured populations
Day 2: Evolution
09:00 - 10:00 Lecture and discussion on evolution
10:00 - 11:00 Exercises
11:00 - 12:00 Journal club, applications for your own project
Topics: fundamentals, micro/macro-evolution, evolvability, life history theory, plasticity, G functions/adaptive dynamics
Day 3: New Horizons
09:00 - 09:45 Lecture and discussion on behavioral ecology
09:45 - 10:30 Journal club
10:30 - 11:30 Project pitches
11:30 - 12:00 General discussion, take-aways, feedback
Topics: island biogeography, cancer behavioral ecology, tissue organizational field theory, social evolution
Link to recommended reading
"Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts--some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole" - Theodosius Dobzhansky
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