Phylogenetics Workshop - Agenda
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| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| Sunday April 27th, 2008 | |
| 8:15 | Shuttle Bus Transportation from the Hotel Santa Fe to SFI |
| 8:30 | Rich Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:05 | Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
“Phylogenetics: Interactions between mathematics and evolution” |
| 9:50 | Alexei Drummond, University of Auckland
“Bayesian evolutionary analysis with BEAST" |
| 10:40 | Break |
| 10:55 | Joe Felsenstein, University of Washington
“Variation of rates among sites: a problem for distance matrix methods?” |
| 11:30 | Tanmoy Bhttacharya, Santa Fe Institute
“Phylogenetic corrections to statistical tests of correlation” |
| 12:20 | Buffet Luncheon |
| 1:50 | Vladimir Minin, University of Washington
“Robust estimation of genetic distances with applications to the convergent evolution problem” |
| 2:40 | Benjamin Redelings, North Carolina State University
“Robust phylogeny reconstruction from ambiguous alignments via joint Bayesian estimation” |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:45 | Hirohisa Kishino, University of Tokyo
“Using a database and a prior for the estimation of structural evolution and recombination” |
| 4:35 | Andrew Rambaut, University of Edinburgh
“The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human Influenza A virus” |
| 5:30 | Shuttle bus transportation back to Hotel Santa Fe |