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  | <b>TIME</b>
  | <b>ACTIVITY</b>

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  | <b>Sunday April 27th, 2008</b>

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  |8:15 
  |Shuttle Bus Transportation from the Hotel Santa Fe to SFI

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  |8:30 
  |Rich Continental Breakfast

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  |9:00  
  |Welcome

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  |9:05
  |Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
“Phylogenetics: Interactions between mathematics and evolution”

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  |9:50
  |Alexei Drummond, University of Auckland
“Bayesian evolutionary analysis with BEAST"

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  |10:40
  |Break

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  |10:55
  |Joe Felsenstein, University of Washington
“Variation of rates among sites: a problem for distance matrix methods?”

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  |11:30
  |Tanmoy Bhttacharya, Santa Fe Institute
“Phylogenetic corrections to statistical tests of correlation”

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  |12:20
  |Buffet Luncheon

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  |1:50
  |Vladimir Minin, University of Washington
“Robust estimation of genetic distances with applications to the convergent evolution problem”

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  |2:40 
  |Benjamin Redelings, North Carolina State University
“Robust phylogeny reconstruction from ambiguous alignments via joint Bayesian estimation”

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  |3:30
  |Break

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  |3:45
  |Hirohisa Kishino, University of Tokyo
“Using a database and a prior for the estimation of structural evolution and recombination”

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  |4:35
  |Andrew Rambaut, University of Edinburgh
“The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human Influenza A virus”

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  |5:30
  |Shuttle bus transportation back to Hotel Santa Fe