VEME2023 – Phylogenetic inference module

Responsible
Marta Giovanetti and Eduan Wilkinson

TIME

CONTENT

SPEAKERS

SUNDAY 20 AUGUST

16:00
to
16:40

Welcome to VEME - Stellenbosch Museum, 37 Ryneveld St.

Tulio de Oliveira

17:00
to
19:00

VEME Cocktail Event

Monday 21 AUGUST

08:00
to
08:30

Registration.

8:30
to
9:00

Welcome and practical instructions

M Giovanetti and E Wilkinson

9:00
to
10:30

Fundamentals of molecular evolution

E Wilkinson

10:30
to
11:00

Coffee break.

11:00
to
12:30

Constructing a proper dataset: practical

M Giovanetti and H Tegally

12:30
to
14:00

Lunch.

14:00
to
16:00

Alignment algorithms.

LA Santos

16:00
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session.

Tuesday 22 AUGUST

8:30
to
9:30

Sequence alignments and editing: practical

LA Santos and E Wilkinson

9:30
to
10:30

Phylogenetic signal and phylogenetic noise: theory

H Schmidt

10:30
to
11:00

Coffee break.

11:00
to
12:30

Phylogenetic signal and phylogenetic noise: practical

M Giovanetti and E Wilkinson

12:30
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
14:30

Evolutionary models: theory

H. Schmidt

14:30
to
15:30

Testing evolutionary models: practical

E Wilkinson and M Giovanetti

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break.

16:00
to
16:50

Free computer time.

All PI instructors

Wednesday 23 AUGUST

8:30
to
10:30

Methods for phylogenetic tree reconstruction

H. Schmidt

10:30
to
11:00

Coffee break.

11:00
to
12:30

Constructing phylogenetic trees: practical (NJ)

H Tegally and LA Santos

12:30
to
13:30

Lunch.

13:30
to
15:00

Hypothesis testing and ML methods

H Schmidt

15:00
to
16:00

Hypothesis testing and ML methods: practical

M Giovanetti and E Wilkinson

16:00
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session.

Keynotes: Jan Mouton Learning Centre, Stellenbosch University, De Beer Rd.

17:30
to
18:45

Keynote 1:

Edward Holmes

18:45
to
20:00

Keynote 2:

Marion Koopmans

Thursday 24 August

8:30
to
9:30

Reconstructing ancestral states

E Wilkinson

9:30
to
10:30

Reconstructing ancestral states: practical

E Wilkinson and H Tegally

10:30
to
11:00

Coffee break.

11:00
to
12:30

Molecular Clocks and intro to phylodynamics

M Giovanetti

12:30
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