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Molecular Phylogenies: Reconstruction & Interpretation

 Description of project: 

A one week intense Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences special course for PhD students. The course includes lectures and practicals every day and comprises a day on 'Data & Treebuilding, Parsimony', one on 'Model-based Treebuilding', one on 'More models & network reconstruction', one on 'Tree interpretation' (including character optimization, super/species trees and orthology/paralogy analysis). The final day will have seminars on case studies, including from invited speakers. The Thursday evening we will have our course diner in a local restaurant in Wageningen.
Duration of training: 
1 week
Training period: 
October: NHN-Wageningen
Target Audience: 
trainees at PhD level, if place permits one or two Postdocs are welcome too. Individual training based on face-to-face and group discussions and self-activation in practicals.
Practical experiences: 
Application of around 20 software packages for model-based and parsimony approaches to phylogeny and network reconstruction as well as their interpretation in terms of trends (morphology, ecology), time or molecular evolution. Alignment of DNA sequences will be covered only briefly.
Lectures: 
- What phylogenies tell us - Data quality - Data modelling - Model-based approach to phylogeny estimation - Likelihood & Bayesian approach - Parsimony - Inferring trends from trees - Estimating species trees from gene trees
Name of mentor / supervisor: 
Freek Bakker - Freek.Bakker@wur.nl; Lars Chatrou - Lars.Chatrou@wur.nl
Institution/Organisation: 
Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & NHN Wageningen
EDIT partner number: 
6
Unit/Department/Laboratory: 
Biosystematics Group
Address: 
Generaal Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, The Netherlands