IPTB13

Introduction to Phylogenetic Tree-Building


Course Timetable (provisional)
IPTB13 Introduction to Phylogenetic Tree-Building
Thu, June 13th
Day #1
09:30 - 11:00 1. Historical context of classificatory mechanisms, general context of tree-building
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 2. Modelling molecular evolution: what models are trying to capture
3. Distance methods
4. Treespace
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Data triage, building quick trees, and interpreting trees
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Data triage, building quick trees, and interpreting trees (continued)
Fri, June 14th
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 5. Parsimony
6. Likelihood-based tree building
7. Maximum likelihood
8. Bayesian MCMC
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 9. Bootstrapping
10. Topology testing
11. Worked example
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Building ML and Bayesian trees using Geneious; interpreting methods sections of papers
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Wrap-up session
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Last updated:   June 12th 2011