Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Module

Responsible
Carla Mavian and Philippe Lemey

TIME

CONTENT

SPEAKERS

SUNDAY 6 September

17:00
to
18:00

Welcome to VEME

TBA

18:00
to
20:00

Coffee break

Monday 7 September

7:00
to
8:00

Registration.

8:00
to
8:30

Welcome and practical instructions

TBA

8:30
to
9:30

Statistical inference in phylogenetics and phylodynamics

Philippe

9:30
to
10:00

Advanced evolutionary models and maximum likelihood methods: theory

Heiko

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Advanced evolutionary models and maximum likelihood methods: theory

Heiko

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

14:30
to
15:30

Advanced evolutionary models and maximum likelihood methods: practice

Heiko & Verity

15:30
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session

Tuesday 8 September

8:00
to
10:00

Bayesian phylogenetic inference: theory

Marc Suchard

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Molecular clock & Time-measured trees

Verity Hill

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
15:30

Introduction to BEAST(/BEAGLE): practice

Verity, Carla, Philippe

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break

16:00
to
17:00

The coalescent with varying population size: theory

Marc Suchard

Wednesday 9 September

8:00
to
10:00

Coalescent inference: practice

Philippe, Verity, Marc

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Birth-death models for phylodynamics: Theory

Marc

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
14:30

Birth-death models for phylodynamics: Practice

Philippe, Carla, Marc

14:30
to
15:30

Bayesian model testing

Guy

15:30
to
16:00

Free computer time

All Teachers​

16:00
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session

17:00
to
17:30

Keynote 1: Smart Surveillance: Digital Tools and AI for Early Warning and Outbreak Preparedness

Moritz Kraemer

17:30
to
18:00

Keynote 2: TBA

Houriiyah Tegally

Thursday 10 September

8:00
to
10:00

Discrete Phylogeographic inference: theory

Philippe

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Discrete Phylogeographic inference: practice

Philippe, Sam, Simon

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
15:30

Structured Coalescent: theory & practice

Guy, Sam

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break

16:00
to
17:30

Free computer time

Carla, Sam, Simon

18:30
to
20:30

Course teachers dinner

Friday 11 September

8:30
to
10:30

Continuous Phylogeographic inference: theory (and Seraphim)

Simon Dellicour

10:30
to
10:45

Coffee break.

10:45
to
12:30

Continuous Phylogeographic inference: practice (and Seraphim)

Simon, Philippe, Sam

12:30
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
15:30

Free computer time

Carla, Sam, Philippe

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break.

16:00
to
17:30

Free computer time

Carla, Sam