Phylogenetic inference module

Responsible
Marta 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 and H Tegally

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

Sequence alignments and editing: practical

LA Santos and E Wilkinson

9:15
to
10:00

Phylogenetic signal and phylogenetic noise: theory

H Schmidt

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

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

H Tegally and E Wilkinson

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

E Wilkinson

9:00
to
10:00

Reconstructing ancestral states: practical

E Wilkinson and H Tegally

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break.

10:30
to
12:00

Molecular Clocks and intro to phylodynamics

M Giovanetti

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
15:30

Introduction to Bayesian methods in BEAST

H Tegally and E Wilkinson

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