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