Biological and Computational Aspects of Phylogenetic Inference and Implications for the Evolution of Life on Earth


Seminar outline:

The seminar is open to CS, Bioinformatics, and Biology students and the main goal is for Biologists and Computer Scientists to learn to talk to each other, i.e., improve their interdisciplinary skills.

Locality:

The seminar will take place at the Museum of Paleontology in Munich, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, room 012. Course Time: Mondays from 16:00-18:00 and a
beer nearby after the course. The seminar starts at 16:15, i.e., c.t.!

Instructors:
Prof. Gert Wörheide
Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis


Participants:
Biology, Paleontology, and Bioinformatics PhD students/PostDocs
CS, Bioinformatics,
Paleontology master/diploma students

Preliminary Schedule:

03.05    cancelled

10.05    cancelled

17.05    Computing the Likelihood on Trees (Alexis Stamatakis)  


24.05    Pfingsten vacations

31.05    Efficiently Computing the Likelihood on gappy phylogenomic alignments (Alexis Stamatakis)

07.06    Horizontal Gene Transfer (Tatyana Nosenko)

14.06    Controversy on Non-Bilaterian Relationships (Gert Wörheide)


21.06    Molecular Clocks (Martin Dohrmann)


28.06    Computations on Bipartitions of Trees (Phlipp Comans)


05.07    cancelled

12.07    
Impact of Taxon Sampling on Phylogeny Reconstruction (Pinar Özbay)

19.07    Phylogenetic Placement of Short Reads & Accurate Fossil Placement (Simon Berger)