The Annual New Zealand Phylogenetics Meeting

Leigh 2011

The Annual New Zealand Phylogenetics Meeting

Sunday 6th - Friday 11th February, 2011

Overview:

The 15th annual New Zealand meeting on the interface of mathematics and biology in the study of phylogeny, genome analysis and molecular evolution will be held at Leigh. It will be summer in New Zealand, so expect temperatures in the mid-20s to 30s Celsius. There's heaps to do, including diving and fishing. More information on the Leigh By The Sea website.

The meeting will be held at the The Leigh Sawmill Café.

WEBSITE: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/bio/events/leigh2011/

Frontiers in Biodiversity: a Phylogenetic Perspective

A two-day international symposium on frontier biodiversity research in a phylogenetic framework
Barcelona, Spain, October 1st and 2nd, 2010.
You are kindly invited to attend the international symposium “Frontiers in Biodiversity: a Phylogenetic Perspective”, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, the 1st and 2nd of October 2010. This symposium is co-organized by the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IrBio), the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) and the Zoological Systematics and Evolution research group on the occasion of the International year of Biodiversity.

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2010 Italian workshop on phylogenetic methods and applications

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Program
The workshop is expected to start on August 27th at 10 am, and will end in the afternoon of September 1st. Classes and tutorials will run every day from 9 am until 7 pm.
Some of the topics that will be covered in the lectures will be:

• Introduction to molecular evolution
• models of sequence evolution
• methods of sequence alignment
• methods of phylogenetic inference (distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood, bayesian inference)
• molecular clock
• supertrees
• phylogenomics
• diversification rate methods
• comparative method
• biogeography/phylogeography
  

Tutorials will be held to allow the workshop participants to become more familiar with the software packages that can be used for various kinds of analyses. Among the programs that will be used during the tutorials are:

• Mesquite (matrix manipulations, tree manipulations, comparative analyses)
• Mrbayes (bayesian phylogenetic inference)
• RAxML (manimum likelihood phylogenetic inference)
• Winclada (maximum parsimony phylogenetic inference)
• BEAST (relaxed molecular clock, coalescent studies)
• Figtree (tree graphics)
• Various applications for R (statistical package), including geiger, laser, ape, ouch (comparative analyses)
  

Students are encouraged to bring their own datasets to the workshop

To have a better idea about some of these topics, feel free to consult the page of the 2009 Workshop: http://sites.google.com/site/phylogenyworkshop/