2da. Reunión Mexicana de Biología Filogenética

2a. Reunión Mexicana de Biología Filogenética,

11 al 14 de JUNIO 2007. Cuernavaca, Morelos.

C A N C E L A D A

Información: Dr. Oscar Dorado, CEAMISH, Cuernavaca, Mor.

Visite el sitio web en http://www.uaem.mx/filogenetica/index.html

Computational Phyloinformatics: A Course at NESCent.

Computational Phyloinformatics: A Course at NESCent.
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center,
9 - 19 July 2007
Instructors:
William Piel
Hilmar Lapp
David Maddison
Wayne Maddison
Jeff Oliver
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Stephen Smith
Arlin Stoltzfus
Rutger Vos

"This course is designed to give graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in phylogenetics who have an interest in writing programs and scripting analyses the skills needed to tackle the grand challenges posed by the Assembling the Tree of Life program, Evo-Devo, Metagenomics, Phylogenomics, and other emerging research areas. "

North American Workshop in Cladistic Methods

North American Workshop in Cladistic Methods
The Ohio State University & Willi Hennig Society,
July 15-21, 2007
Currently scheduled lecturers include:
Dr. Pablo Goloboff (Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina ),
Dr. Kevin Nixon (Cornell University),
Dr. Dennis Pearl (Ohio State University),
Dr. John Wenzel (Ohio State University) and
Dr. Ward Wheeler (American Museum of Natural History).

Topics to be covered include the logic of the phylogenetic method, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches, tree search strategies, measures of support, DNA alignment, morphological character coding, weighting, analysis of multiple and large data sets, consensus and character hypothesis testing. The software used for the course will be TNT, POY, NONA, WinClada, RaxML, MrBayes and Clustal.