Graduate (Ph.D.) introductory course in Phylogenetics theory, 2 p

8 March to 19 March 2004

Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, KI, KTH, SU


Course description

Course description is available here

Course schedule

WeekDayTimeSubject
11 Mon 8 Mar 10-12 Introduction to phylogenetics, Graph theory in phylogenetics, splits, metrics
    13-15 Group practice - Mathematical writing in phylogenetics
  Tue 9 Mar 10-12 Consensus trees, supertrees, Reconciliation, swapping
    13-15 Group practice - Mathematical functions in phylogenetics
  Thu 11 Mar 10-12 Evolutionary processes - models of data evolution
Distribution of group assignments
Group 1 (Ali, Susanne, Abhiman
Group2 (Lene, Niclas, Timo, Daniel)
(Note that section 5 - convergence - in this paper should not be a part of the presentation and can be read less intensively)
    13-15 Group practice - Probability and Markov processes in phylogenetics
  Fri 12 Mar 10-12 Reconstruction methods - probabilistic, parsimony and metrics methods
    13-15 Group practice - Algorithms, heuristics, dynamic programming, complexity
12 Mon 15 Mar 10-12 Support (Bootstrap, Bayesian analysis)
    13-15 Time for work on group assignements
  Tue 16 Mar 13-15 Time for work on group assignements
  Thu 18 Mar 10-12 Workshop on selected phylogeny program
    13-15 Workshop on selected phylogeny program (continued)
  Fri 19 Mar 10-12 Variation in evolutionary rates, model testing
    13-15 Presentation of group assignments
Comments about errors found in lecture notes or descriptions of group practices would be gratefully recived

Course responsible

Course responsible and lecturer is Bengt Sennblad, email.

Course evaluation

The result of the course evaluation can be found here.

Last change 5 March 2004