Workshop on Molecular Evolution

2015

Český Krumlov, Czech Republic

Sessions

Participants

Countries

12 faculty

Date

Time

Topic

Type

Presenter(s)

25th Jan

18-22

Reception

Social

Everyone

26th Jan

09-12

Workshop Introduction

Lecture

Walter Salzburger

14-17

Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS) ; Introduction to UNIX

Lecture

Workshop Team

19-22

Participant Introductions

Lecture

Everyone

27th Jan

09-12

Ortholog Detection

Lecture

Toni Gabaldón

14-17

Ortholog Detection Lab

Practical

Toni Gabaldón

19-22

Multiple Sequence Alignment Lab

Practical

Workshop Team

28th Jan

09-12

Likelihood and Substitution Models

Lecture

Paul Lewis

14-17

PAUP * Intro/Demo; Model Selection for ML (slides: part 1 , part 2 )

Lecture

David Swofford

19-22

PAUP* Lab

Practical

David Swofford

29th Jan

09-12

Detecting Selection

Lecture

Joseph Bielawski

14-17

PAML Lab ( Chi Square calculator )

Practical

Joseph Bielawski

19-22

GARLI and RAxML Lab

Practical

Adam Bazinet, Workshop Team

30th Jan

09-12

Bayesian Inference

Lecture

Paul Lewis

14-17

Relaxed Bayesian Phylogenetics

Lecture

Alexei Drummond

19-22

BEAST 2 Lab

Practical

Alexei Drummond

31st Jan

09-12

Genome Evolution

Lecture

Walter Salzburger

14-17

Open Lab

Practical

Everyone

19-22

Town Tour. Meet in Town Square at 17:30 PM for tour. Dinner since 7PM.

Social

Everyone

1st Feb

All Day

Free Day

travel

Everyone

2nd Feb

09-12

Coalescent theory (lecture slides: coal1 , coal2 ) Tools: popvizard , bugsinbox2013 . Group Photo after the talk.

Lecture

Peter Beerli

14-17

RevBayes Intro and Continuous Time Markov Chains Lab

Practical

Sebastian Hoehna

19-22

Bayes Factors and Model Selection Lab

Practical

Sebastian Hoehna

3rd Feb

09-12

Species Tree Estimation

Lecture

Laura Kubatko

14-17

SVDquartets Lab

Practical

Laura Kubatko

19-22

*BEAST Lab (and SNAPP)

Practical

Alexei Drummond

4th Feb

09-12

Analysis of Phylogenetic Comparative Data

Lecture

Matt Pennell

14-17

Introduction to R and Ape

Lecture

Matt Pennell

19-22

Geiger Lab

Practical

Matt Pennell

5th Feb

09-12

Ancestral Reconstruction/Discrete Phylogeography Lab (location file: H5N1locations.dat , kml file: H5N1.kml )

Practical

Alexei Drummond

14-17

Biogeography and Large State Space Models Lab

Practical

Sebastian Hoehna

19-22

Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Lab

Practical

Sebastian Hoehna

6th Feb

09-12

Estimating diversification processes (Slides: Part 1 , Part 2 )

Lecture

Tanja Stadler

14-17

Phylodynamics Lab

Practical

Tanja Stadler

19-22

Tree Priors Lab

Practical

Alexei Drummond

7th Feb

09-12

Open lab

Practical

Everyone

14-17

Open lab

Practical

Everyone

19-22

Workshop Party

Social

Everyone