OSU Cladistics Workshop, 2010

OSU Cladistics Workshop: "workshop on phylogenetic methods"

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.

Rudimenthos: Revision Darwin, Metagenòmica y la "Nueva Ecologìa"

Rudimenthos: Revisiòn Darwin, Metagenòmica y la "Nueva Ecologìa"

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Éste es una breve revisión de metagenómcia y sus recientes avances en metagenómica y la aplicación de las herramientas de la biología molecular a la ecología. A nuestro entender, los enfoques metagenómicos representan una culminación del legado de Darwin como la aproximación al mundo natural visualizando individualmente a los organismos como el producto de su historia evolutiva delineada por su funcionamiento e interacción con su entorno abiótico y con otros organismos.
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PhyloSeminar anuncia: Philippe Lemey speaking on Phylogenetic diffusion models

The next speaker will be Philippe Lemey speaking Friday, July 16
at noon PDT on "Phylogenetic diffusion models and their applications
in viral epidemiology."

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.

I hope you will be able to attend this exciting talk.

To attend this and other talks, learn how to connect ahead of time, and join the email list by sending an email to phyloseminar+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
If you can't make it, don't fret-- you can always watch the recording.


Thanks,

Erick