Courses

Joe Felsenstein's courses

In each case the link below is to the web page for the most recent year that I taught it. Many of the courses have links to audio recordings of the lectures in WMA and also in MP3 format. Using them and the lecture presentation PDFs you can hear and see what was presented at each lecture. All that's missing is an animated stick figure of me brandishing a laser pointer.

Not-quite-courses

PopGenLunch, a weekly seminar series which for some years occurred on Fridays at lunchtime (on Wednesdays in Winter Quarter). "Chalk talks" by participants, mostly local, on their research. This is not a course and does not happen every week -- the schedule is announced on a mailing list, whose email address is popgenlunch (at) u.washington.edu. PopGenLunch started as a weekly seminar about 1973, and continued under my coordination until spring of 2018. After that it will be led by Kelley Harris. The mailing list and schedule link should continue to work. The seminar has not met regularly since 2018.

University courses

I retired in October of 2017, so I will not teach any courses from then on.

Courses formerly taught

Genome 562 (Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics) graduate course on Theoretical Population Genetics. I gave it for the last time in Winter quarter of 2017. In 2019 it was taught by Mary Kuhner (see below). In 2023 it resumed, taught jointly by Alison Feder and by Kelley Harris

Genome 570 (Phylogenetic Inference) a graduate course on phylogenies, given every other year, and for the last time in Winter quarter of 2016.

Genome 453 (Evolutionary Genetics) an upper-undergraduate course on the genetic mechanisms of evolution. Through 2015, Joe taught it in odd-numbered years in the Autumn quarter (Mary Kuhner taught it even-numbered years then, and taught it until 2019.

Biology 550D (Morphometrics for Biologists) a graduate course, co-taught with Fred Bookstein, who is Mr. Morphometrics. Was given in Autumn quarter of 2016 on a one-time-only basis.

CSE 590c (Reading and Research in Computational Biology) as one of several faculty members leading this seminar every quarter of the regular academic year (the course is led by Larry Russo, and others include Bill Noble and Su-In Lee).

Genome 541 (Computational Molecular Biology) I taught in this course starting in 2001, and every year thereafter until Spring quarter 2010. A number of other computational biologists taught the rest of the quarter. This is the second quarter of a two-quarter sequence starting with Genome 540. I have not taught in this course after 2010. In years 2001 through 2009 I did not host the course web page on my server, and some of those course web pages may be unavailable. But I do have lecture PDFs and homework assignment PDFs on my server, you can find my lecture PDFs and homework PDFs by using the 2010 links for them, but changing "2010" to the appropriate year.

Genome 560 (Statistics for Genomics students) A 5-week module taught the second half of Spring Quarter, 2009-2011 (paired with Genome 561, taught by Willie Swanson, in the first half of the quarter -- yes, I know they are out of numerical order). This was not a course on the advanced statistical techniques used in genomics, it is an elementary statistics refresher module, and it is not open to students from other departments. From 2012 on it has been a 10-week course, taught by Su-In Lee and Doug Fowler. I do not know its current status.

Summer courses

I have taught in three summer courses, and these days teach in one or two each summer. Here are links to the most recent occurrences. They include PDFs of my projections and audio files of my talks.

Courses given recently

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop. I co-founded and have co-led this with Steve Arnold of Oregon State University since 2011. Since 2017 it has been given at the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the UW on beautiful San Juan Island. For people who want to know more, here are the blog pages for the workshop. The links in the 2019 schedule there lead to pages for the lectures that have lecture projections and audio recordings of the lectures. The workshop was not given in 2020 owing to the pandemic. It was given as an online workshop in 2021 from 12 July to 16 July and also in 2022 from to . The materials for 2021 and 2022 can be found there under the heading of Previous Years. They include video recordings of the lectures as well as slides and materials for exercises. The 2022 videos are clearer. An attempt was made to run an in-person workshop at Friday Harbor Laboratories in 2023, but not enough people applied. We hope to do this again in 2025. Links to the web pages for previous years' workshops are also available at the link for Previous Years at the blog page. For some of these years videos of the lectures are available. Some materials are unavailable at those web pages -- we are working to restore them.

Courses formerly given

Workshop on Molecular Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in late July. From 1988 to 2015 I taught in this workshop a total of 24 times (missing it in 1996, 1998, 2008, and 2010). In recent years I gave two lectures, one on using phylogenies to make inferences about morphological characters, and one on the history of numerical work on phylogenies. and I also sang The Amphioxus Song at their lobster banquet.
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington in July. I have co-taught the Molecular Phylogenetics module with Mark Holder and Jeff Thorne. We taught the module from 2010 through 2016, except for 2015. Web pages for the module in those years can be found by changing the number of the year in the above link.

Mary Kuhner's courses

Genome 453 (Evolutionary Genetics) an upper-undergraduate course on the genetic mechanisms of evolution. Taught Autumn quarters until 2017 (in the past Joe Felsenstein taught it in Autumn of the odd-numbered years).

Genome 562 (Population Genetics) a graduate course on theoretical and empirical population genetics. Taught by Mary Kuhner in the winter quarter of 2019.

After 2019, Mary moved to a non-teaching position in the Department of Biology. As far as I know Genome 453 has not been taught since then.

Courses formerly taught
Genome 562 (Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics)		graduate course on Theoretical Population Genetics. I gave it for the last time in Winter quarter of 2017. In 2019 it was taught by Mary Kuhner (see below). In 2023 it resumed, taught jointly by Alison Feder and by Kelley Harris
Genome 570 (Phylogenetic Inference)		a graduate course on phylogenies, given every other year, and for the last time in Winter quarter of 2016.
Genome 453 (Evolutionary Genetics)		an upper-undergraduate course on the genetic mechanisms of evolution. Through 2015, Joe taught it in odd-numbered years in the Autumn quarter (Mary Kuhner taught it even-numbered years then, and taught it until 2019.
Biology 550D (Morphometrics for Biologists)		a graduate course, co-taught with Fred Bookstein, who is Mr. Morphometrics. Was given in Autumn quarter of 2016 on a one-time-only basis.
CSE 590c (Reading and Research in Computational Biology)		as one of several faculty members leading this seminar every quarter of the regular academic year (the course is led by Larry Russo, and others include Bill Noble and Su-In Lee).
Genome 541 (Computational Molecular Biology)		I taught in this course starting in 2001, and every year thereafter until Spring quarter 2010. A number of other computational biologists taught the rest of the quarter. This is the second quarter of a two-quarter sequence starting with Genome 540. I have not taught in this course after 2010. In years 2001 through 2009 I did not host the course web page on my server, and some of those course web pages may be unavailable. But I do have lecture PDFs and homework assignment PDFs on my server, you can find my lecture PDFs and homework PDFs by using the 2010 links for them, but changing "2010" to the appropriate year.
Genome 560 (Statistics for Genomics students)		A 5-week module taught the second half of Spring Quarter, 2009-2011 (paired with Genome 561, taught by Willie Swanson, in the first half of the quarter -- yes, I know they are out of numerical order). This was not a course on the advanced statistical techniques used in genomics, it is an elementary statistics refresher module, and it is not open to students from other departments. From 2012 on it has been a 10-week course, taught by Su-In Lee and Doug Fowler. I do not know its current status.

Genome 453 (Evolutionary Genetics)		an upper-undergraduate course on the genetic mechanisms of evolution. Taught Autumn quarters until 2017 (in the past Joe Felsenstein taught it in Autumn of the odd-numbered years).
Genome 562 (Population Genetics)		a graduate course on theoretical and empirical population genetics. Taught by Mary Kuhner in the winter quarter of 2019.