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The course will concentrate on methods and computer programs for inferring phylogenies. It will involve lectures and computer exercises. About half of the time will be devoted to the computer labs. The course is designed for students with some mathematical, statistics, or computer science background.
CLICK HERE for information on HOW TO APPLY to attend this course.
The course will be more widely advertised early in 1998. In the meantime, anyone interested in further information should subscribe to the programme mailing list.
Coordinator of software labs: Frank Wright, BIOSS, Scotland
| Time and Date | Topic | Lecturer | Affiliation |
| Monday 10 August 9.00-10.30 |
Introduction to phylogeny methods | Joe Felsenstein | Univ. of Washington |
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" 11.00-12.00 |
History and philosophy of phylogeny methods | A.W.F. Edwards | Univ. of Cambridge |
| Tuesday 11 August 9.00-10.00 |
Introduction to parsimony methods | Walter Fitch | Univ. of California, Irvine |
| " 10.00-11.00 |
Introduction to distance matrix methods | Andrey Rzhetsky | Columbia University |
| " 11.30-12.30 |
Introduction to likelihood methods | Joe Felsenstein | Univ. of Washington |
| Wednesday 12 August 9.00-10.00 |
Searching in tree space: Rearrangements | John Huelsenbeck | Smithsonian Molecular Systematics Lab, Washington |
| " 10.00-10.30 |
Searching in tree space: Landscapes | Mike Charleston | Univ. of Oxford |
| " 11.00-11.30 |
Searching in tree space: Quartets | Arndt von Haeseler | Univ. of Munich |
| " 11.30-12.00 |
Searching in tree space: Stochastic methods | Michael Newton | Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thursday 13 August 9.00-10.00 |
Statistical tests | John Huelsenbeck | Smithsonian Molecular Systematics Lab, Washington |
| " 10.00-11.00 |
Interval Estimates | Joe Felsenstein | Univ. of Washington, Seattle |
| " 11.30-12.30 |
More on statistical tests | Ziheng Yang | University College London |
| Friday 14 August 9.00-10.00 |
Using phylogenies: Sequence alignment | Jotun Hein | Aarhus University |
| " 10.00-11.00 |
Using phylogenies: Comparative method | Wayne Maddison | Univ. of Arizona, Tucson |
| " 11.30-12.30 |
Using phylogenies: Hosts, parasites, biogeography | Rod Page | Univ. of Glasgow |