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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
 

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