MEPA10 Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics and Adaptation |
IMPORTANT DATES for MEPA10
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Instructors: |
Hernan Dopazo is the head of the Comparative Genomics Unit at the CIPF (Valencia) and leads the PHYLEMON project (http://phylemon.bioinfo.cipf.es). He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in the National History Museum of Madrid and has held postdoctoral positions in the National Center for Oncologic Research (Madrid), the Institute for Biomedical Research (Argentina), the CEA-UBA's Complex Systems Research Group (Argentina), and at the FCEN's Vertebrate Paleontolgy Laboratory (Argentina). He has taught Evolutionary Theory and Phylogenetics for more than ten years at the UBA (Argentina), the UAM (Madrid), CIPF (Valencia), University of Cambridge (UK), Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal), and others. His main interests are within the fields of phylogenomics, comparative genomics, and natural selection and its relation to disease. |
François Serra obtained his Degree in Biology , specialized in physiology and neurophysiology (Strasbourg I Universty, France) and a Master's Degree in Structural genomics and bioinformatics (Strasbourg I Universty, France). He is part of the Comparative Genomics Unit in the Department of Bioinformatics at the CIPF (Valencia) where he was recently involved in the PHYLEMON project, for the second release of the suite of web-tools (http://phylemon2.bioinfo.cipf.es). His main research interests are grounded on comparative genomics and evolution with a special focus on the detection of adaptation at genomic scale in mammals as well as in melanogaster group.He has taught training courses like this one at CIPF (Valencia). |
Bioinformatics Department, Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain. |
Course description: |
More than 30 years ago, Theodosius Dobzhansky claimed: |
Course Pre-requisites: Elementary knowledge of Biochemistry and Sequence Analysis is useful though not strictly required. |
Detailed Program (Timetable) |
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