Phylogenetic inference module ResponsibleMarta Giovanetti and Eduan Wilkinson TIME CONTENT SPEAKERS SUNDAY X AUGUST 17:00 to 18:00 Welcome to VEME TBA 18:00 to 20:00 Coffee break. Monday X AUGUST 07:00 to 08:00 Registration. 8:00 to 8:30 Welcome and practical instructions TBA 8:30 to 10:00 Fundamentals of molecular evolution E Wilkinson 10:00 to 10:30 Coffee break. 10:30 to 12:00 Constructing a proper dataset: practical M Giovanetti & LA Santos 12:00 to 13:30 Lunch. 10:30 to 16:00 Alignment algorithms (Theory and Practice) LA Santos 16:00 to 17:00 Coffee break + poster session. Tuesday X AUGUST 8:00 to 9:15 Phylogenetic signal and phylogenetic noise: theory H Schmidt 9:15 to 10:00 Sequence alignments and editing: practical LA Santos 10:00 to 10:30 Coffee break. 10:30 to 12:00 Phylogenetic signal and phylogenetic noise: practical M Giovanetti and E Wilkinson 12:00 to 13:30 Lunch. 13:30 to 14:30 Evolutionary models: theory LA Santos and M Giovanetti 14:30 to 15:30 Testing evolutionary models: practical M Giovanetti and LA Santos 15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break. 16:00 to 17:00 Free computer time. All PI instructors Wednesday X AUGUST 8:00 to 10:00 Methods for phylogenetic tree reconstruction (theory) E Wilkinson 10:00 to 10:30 Coffee break. 10:30 to 12:00 Hypothesis testing and ML methods: Part 1 H Schmidt 12:00 to 13:30 Lunch. 13:30 to 14:00 Hypothesis testing and ML methods: Part 2 H Schmidt 14:00 to 16:00 Hypothesis testing and NJ and ML methods: practical E Wilkinson & LA Santos 16:00 to 17:00 Coffee break + poster session. 17:00 to 17:30 Keynote 1: TBA 17:30 to 18:00 Keynote 2: TBA Thursday X August 8:00 to 9:00 Reconstructing ancestral states: theory E Wilkinson 9:00 to 10:00 Reconstructing ancestral states: practical E Wilkinson & LA Santos 10:00 to 10:30 Coffee break. 10:30 to 12:00 Molecular Clock and introduction to phylodynamics M Giovanetti 12:00 to 13:30 Lunch. 13:30 to 15:30 Introduction to Bayesian methods in BEAST M Giovanetti and All PI instructors 15:30 to 16:00 Coffee break. 16:00 to 17:30 Free computer time All PI instructors 18:30 to 20:30 Course teachers dinner