Workshop 1: Phylogeography and Phylogenetics (September 26-30, 2005)
The workshop in phylogeography and phylogenetics will focus on the maturation of quantitative techniques that need to occur in these fields. Analytical development is a challenge for researchers seeking clear and unambiguous inferences because both fields use complicated multiparameterized models. A given pattern of genetic diversity between and among species or populations can usually be explained and produced by different scenarios. Maturation of phylogenetic methodologies will be critical if we hope to study such things as the tree of life, linking phenotypic and historical evolution, ancestral character state reconstruction, viral evolution, and the evolution of regulation in protein expression. Likewise, solving the analytical and computational challenges necessary for phylogeographic inferences will be critical for studying dispersal distances, mating systems, sex-biased dispersal, pathogen history, speciation, selection, local adaptation, hybridization, community history, food web stability, the origin of human pathogens, and the evolutionary history of humans.
Schedule |
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Monday, September 26 (chair: Dennis Pearl) |
| 8:30-8:45am |
Coffee and Registration |
| 8:45-9:00am |
Welcome and Introduction: Avner Friedman and Dennis Pearl |
| 9:00-10:00am |
John Huelsenbeck: Detecting positive natural selection in protein-coding DNA under a Dirichlet process prior |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Elizabeth Allman: Progress and potential for phylogenetic invariants |
| 11:30-1:30pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Mike
Steel: Random models of speciation and extinction, and their
relevance for phylogeny |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 3:00-4:00pm |
Discussions: Bret Larget |
| 5:00-8:00pm |
Reception and Poster Session in MW 724. Poster presenters: Flavia
F. Jesus, Ligia Mateiu, Michael
Hickerson, Jeff Pan, Amy Russell, Liang
Liu, Bryan C. Carstens, Yoko Satta, Craig Moritz |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
| 9:00-10:00am |
Antonis
Rokas: Animal Evolution and the Molecular Signature of Radiations
Compressed in Time |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Marc
Suchard: Joint inference of alignment and phylogeny from molecular
sequence data |
| 11:30-1:30pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Tandy
Warnow: The Disk-Covering Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 3:00-4:00pm |
Discussions: Laura Salter |
| 7:00pm |
Banquet Dinner at the Holiday Inn |
| Wednesday, September 28 (chair: Craig Moritz) |
| 9:00-10:00am |
Susan
Holmes: Using Multivariate and Phylogenetic decompositions
in the search for Drug Resistant Mutations in HIV |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Scott Edwards:
From gene trees to species trees: empirical data sets from
birds and priorities for new implementations of theory |
| 11:30-1:00pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:00-3:00pm |
Short talks on posters |
| 3:00-3:30pm |
Coffee break |
| 3:30-4:30pm |
Discussions: Noah Rosenberg |
| Thursday, September 29 (chair: Mike Hickerson) |
| 9:00-10:00am |
Mark
Beaumont: Joint determination of topology, time of splitting
and immigration in population trees |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Lacey Knowles:
Inferring species histories despite incomplete lineage sorting |
| 11:30-1:30pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Stuart Baird:
A lattice implementation of Wright's neighborhood model |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
Coffee break |
| 3:00-4:00pm |
Discussions: Peter Beerli |
| Friday, September 30 (chair: Anne Yoder) |
| 9:00-10:00am |
Chuck
Cannon: Applying phylogenies to practical problems in SE Asia:
data, methods, and speculation |
| 10:00-10:30am |
Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:30am |
Robert
Griffiths: Ancestral inference from gene trees |
| 11:30-1:30pm |
Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:30pm |
Discussions: Craig Moritz |
