Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Workshop 1 Schedule
All talks will take place in the MBI Lecture Hall (Math Building Room 240) unless noted otherwise.

Monday, September 26th (chair: Dennis Pearl)

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.	Coffee and Registration
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction (Avner Friedman and Dennis Pearl)
9:00 -10:00 a.m.	John Huelsenbeck: Detecting positive natural selection in protein-coding DNA under a Dirichlet process prior
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Elizabeth Allman: Progress and potential for phylogenetic invariants
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Mike Steel: Random models of speciation and extinction, and their relevance for phylogeny
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.	Discussions : Bret Larget
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.	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 27th

9:00 -10:00 a.m.	Antonis Rokas: Animal Evolution and the Molecular Signature of Radiations Compressed in Time
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Marc Suchard: Joint inference of alignment and phylogeny from molecular sequence data
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Tandy Warnow: The Disk-Covering Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.	Discussions : Laura Salter
7:00 p.m.	Banquet Dinner at the Holiday Inn

Wednesday, September 28th (chair: Craig Moritz)

9:00 -10:00 a.m.	Susan Holmes: Using Multivariate and Phylogenetic decompositions in the search for Drug Resistant Mutations in HIV
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Scott Edwards: From gene trees to species trees: empirical data sets from birds and priorities for new implementations of theory
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch break
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Short talks on posters
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.	Coffee break
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Discussions: Noah Rosenberg

Thursday, September 29th (chair: Mike Hickerson)

9:00 -10:00 a.m.	Mark Beaumont: Joint determination of topology, time of splitting and immigration in population trees
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Lacey Knowles: Inferring species histories despite incomplete lineage sorting
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Stuart Baird: A lattice implementation of Wright's neighborhood model
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.	Coffee break
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.	Discussions: Peter Beerli

Friday, September 30th (chair: Anne Yoder)

9:00 -10:00 a.m.	Chuck Cannon: Applying phylogenies to practical problems in SE Asia: data, methods, and speculation
10:00 -10:30 a.m.	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.	Robert Griffiths: Ancestral inference from gene trees
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Discussions : Craig Moritz