Population Genetics and Evolution - I- The Mechanisms of Evolution

This course on Population Genetics and Evolution focuses on the mechanisms of evolution. The learning outcomes include gaining insight into evolutionary processes at various biological levels, understanding new methods and approaches in evolutionary biology, and exploring topics such as bacterial and viral evolution, organism-level evolution, and mechanisms/strategies of evolution. The course teaches skills such as analyzing protein folding, clonal analysis, stem-cell fate, immunology, genome evolution, and evolutionary developmental biology. The teaching method involves lectures by experts in the field, including topics like adaptation, mutation rates, biological networks, and learning as an evolutionary process. The intended audience for this course is young researchers, particularly those at the PhD and post-doctoral level with backgrounds in physical and mathematical sciences and engineering, who are working in biology or interested in doing so.