
He recibido noticia del lanzamiento en linea de un nuevo blog relacionado con Filogenia y Biogeografia:
http://cladisticaybiogeografia.blogspot.com/
Bienvenido a la blogosfera! Estaremos pendientes de este foro y le deseamos larga vida.
Este es su espacio para difundir información sobre actividades, cursos, investigación, congresos, etc y promover el contacto entre nuestra comunidad filogenética. Todos pueden publicar. Bienvenidos!

We are very excited to have Philippe Lemey presenting on Friday July
16 at noon PDT concerning
"Phylogenetic diffusion models and their applications in viral epidemiology"
Abstract:
Emerging infectious diseases continue to appear all over the world,
and importantly, they have also risen significantly over time after.
Having the potential to quickly adapt to new hosts and environments,
RNA viruses are prime candidates to emerge as global threats to human
health. Their rapid rate of evolution, however, also turns viral
genomes into valuable resources to reconstruct the spatial and
temporal processes that are shaping epidemic or endemic dynamics. In
this seminar, I will highlight recent developments in phylogenetic
diffusion models that tie together sequence evolution and geographic
history in a coherent statistical framework. Both discrete and
continuous phylogeographic models have recently been implemented in a
Bayesian statistical approach. I will position this approach among
other popular phylogeographic methods, and then focus on applications
in viral molecular epidemiology to demonstrate their use. Finally, I
will hint at future extensions that may provide entirely new
opportunities for phylogeographic hypothesis testing.
Thanks,
Erick
To attend this and other talks, learn how to connect ahead of time.
If you can't make it, don't fret-- you can always watch the recording.
Martin J. Ramirez
Profesor Adjunto UBA FCEyN EGE
Curador General & División Aracnología
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - CONICET
Av. Angel Gallardo 470
C1405DJR Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel +54 11 4982-8370 int. 169
fax +54 11 4982-6670 int. 172

Ayer fue el primer día de presentaciones del Hennig Meeting. He aquí una pequeña reseña de las diferentes presentaciones.
Primero Clifford Morden, Mark Siddall y Jyrki Mouna dieron la bienvenida, Clifford menciono un poco sobre la planta que aparece en el logo del meeting, que es una planta famosa del ecosistema hawaiano. No recuerdo si es Cyrtandra, pero bueno. Luego se dio paso a las presentaciones ya de los papers.
Pei-Luen Lu hablo sobre Dracaena y Pleomele, una grupo de plantas tropicales con una taxonomía bien confusa, su análisis fue bien molecular. Shaena Montanari hablo sobre la filog de los Anguimorfos, un grupo de lagartos que incluye a los Monitores, el mounstro del gila, los extintos Mosasaurios y un montón de lagartillos. Me pareció bien interesante que con su análisis de evidencia completa, si solo se usan los actuales, la topología preferida es la tradicional, pero al incluír los fosiles (que no tienen ADN) el resultado se parece más a los sugeridos inicialmente con moleculas!
The Ohio State University will conduct its fourth workshop on phylogenetic methods in Columbus, Ohio, June 28 - July 2, 2010. The purpose is to provide further instruction and experience to students who already have some familiarity with phylogenetic analysis. The format is a series of lectures and laboratory sessions that will give students the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the logic of the phylogenetic method, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches, tree search strategies, measures of support, DNA alignment, morphological character coding, and analysis of multiple and large data sets.
Lecturers are expected to include Cyrille D'Haese (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Kevin Nixon (Cornell University), Christopher P. Randle (Sam Houston State University) and John W. Wenzel (Ohio State University). The software used for the course will include WinClada, Encino, Mesquite, TNT, PAUP*, Clustal, POY, RaxML, GARLI, and MrBayes, and will be distributed with a course packet and workbook. You can see the planned syllabus here.
Cost for the workshop, is $1200. The workshop will be limited to 40 participants. Twenty Fellowships will be made available on a competitive basis. Fellowships cover lodging in a bloc of rooms rented by the workshop and $600 of fees paid directly to the workshop. Thus Fellows will be responsible for only a workshop cost of $600, the cost of transportation to and from the Ohio State campus, and meals. Other enrollees will be given a list of local motels that are close to campus.
An application consists of a completed application form, a current CV for the student, and a letter from the student’s advisor regarding the relevance of the course to the student’s career goals. Applications are due May 15, 2009, and notification of acceptance will begin by May 25. Please email all application materials to osuphylo@osu.edu. Further information may be obtained by emailing the same address..
This workshop is sponsored by the Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity (http://mbd.osu.edu), Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology (http://eeob.osu.edu) Organized by Marymegan Daly, John V. Freudenstein, and John W. Wenzel.