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 The Workshop on Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole presents a series of lectures, discussions, and bioinformatic exercises that span contemporary topics in molecular evolution. Since its inception in 1988, the workshop has encouraged the exchange of ideas between leading theoreticians, software developers and workshop participants. The workshop serves graduate students, postdoctoral students and established faculty from around the world. The 2012 Workshop will use computer packages including AWTY, BEAST, BEST, Clustal W/X, FASTA, FigTree, GARLI, MIGRATE, LAMARC, MAFFT, MP-EST, MrBayes, PAML, PAUP*, PHYLIP, STEM, STEM-hy, and SeaView to address the topics:
- Phylogenetic analysis: theoretical, mathematical and statistical bases; sampling properties of sequence data; Maximum likelihood theory and practice; Bayesian analysis; hypothesis testing
- Population genetics analysis using coalescence theory; maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation of population genetic parameters
- Databases and sequence matching: database searching: protein sequence versus protein structure; homology; mathematical, statistical, and theoretical aspects of sequence database searches; multiple alignment
- Molecular evolution integrated at organism and higher levels: population biology; biogeography; ecology; systematics and conservation
- Molecular evolution and development: gene duplication and divergence; gene family organization; coordinated expression in evolution
- Comparative genomics: genome content; genome structure; genome evolution
- Molecular evolution integrated at lower levels: biochemistry; cell biology; physiology; relationship of genotype to phenotype
Students will work with computer packages on their own laptops and have the opportunity to use the high performance computer clusters at the MBL.
2012 Course Faculty:
Peter Beerli, Florida State University
Joseph Bielawski, Dalhousie University
Casey Dunn, Brown University
Scott Edwards, Harvard University
Joseph Felsenstein, University of Washington
Tracy Heath, University of California-Berkeley
David Hillis, University of Texas
Mark Holder, University of Kansas
John Huelsenbeck, University of California-Berkeley
Laura Kubatko, Ohio State University
Paul Lewis, University of Connecticut
Conor Meehan, Dalhousie University
William Pearson, University of Virginia
Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
Sara Sawyer, University of Texas
David Swofford, Duke University
Harold Zakon, University of Texas
Derrick Zwickl, University of Arizona
2012 Course TAs:
Emily Jane McTavish, University of Texas
Nicholas Meyerson, University of Texas
Carl Rothfels, Duke University
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