VEME2024 – Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Module

Responsible
Verity Hill and JT McCrone

TIME

CONTENT

SPEAKERS

SUNDAY 4 AUGUST

17:00
to
17:50

Welcome to VEME

Luiz Alcantara

17:50
to
18:10

Keynote 1:

Jairo Mendez Rico

18:10
to
18:30

Keynote 2:

Tulio de Oliveira

18:30
to
20:00

Coffee break

Monday 5 AUGUST

7:00
to
8:00

Registration.

8:00
to
8:30

Welcome and practical instructions

Luiz Alcantara, Marta Giovanetti and Vagner Fonseca

8:30
to
10:00

Statistical inference in phylogenetics and phylodynamics

JT McCrone

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Advanced evolutionary models and maximum likelihood methods: theory

H. Schmidt

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

14:30
to
15:30

Advanced evolutionary models and maximum likelihood methods: practice

H. Schmidt, N. Trovao

15:30
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session

Tuesday 6 AUGUST

8:00
to
9:00

Bayesian phylogenetic inference: theory

M. Gill

9:00
to
10:00

Introduction to BEAST(/BEAGLE) and time-measured trees: theory

V. Hill

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

BEAST: practice (estimating rates)

V. Hill

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
15:30

Coalescent theory and phylodynamic inference: theory

JT McCrone

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break

16:00
to
17:00

Free computer time

V. Hill, JT McCrone, M. Gill

Wednesday 7 AUGUST

8:00
to
10:00

Coalescent theory and phylodynamic inference: Practice

JT McCrone

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Bayesian model testing: theory

M. Gill

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
14:30

Bayesian model testing: practice

M. Gill

14:30
to
16:00

Free computer time

V. Hill, JT McCrone, M. Gill​

16:00
to
17:00

Coffee break + poster session

Hybrid Session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82087200228?pwd=WjRWKavQ064wYfYQ0ZeaFk9U3I1kGY.1

17:00
to
17:30

Keynote 3: Rapid spatial Expansion Beyond the Amazon Basin: Oropouche Virus joins other main arboviruses in epidemic activity across the Americas

Marta Giovanetti

17:30
to
18:00

Keynote 4: 13 years of genomic surveillance in Haiti

Carla Mavian

18:00
to
18:30

Keynote 5: Mass Dengue Vaccination Campaign in Dourados: A Vaccine Breakthough Case Following Tetravalent Anti-dengue Vaccination

Julio Croda

Thursday 8 August

8:00
to
10:00

Phylogeography: theory

V. Hill

10:00
to
10:30

Coffee break

10:30
to
12:00

Phylogeography: practice

V. Hill

12:00
to
13:30

Lunch

13:30
to
15:30

Free computer time

V. Hill, JT McCrone, M. Gill​

15:30
to
16:00

Coffee break

16:00
to
17:30

Free computer time

V. Hill, JT McCrone, M. Gill​

18:30
to
20:30

Course teachers dinner