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. Course Time: Mondays from 18:00-20:00 and a
beer nearby after the course (Start 20.04.2009 End 20.07.2009). The seminar starts at 18:00 sharp, i.e., s.t. !

Instructors:
Prof. Gert Wörheide
Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis


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

Preliminary Schedule:

27.04    Tree Reconstruction (Alexis)

04.05    Tree Reconstruction (Alexis)

11.05    Own Research (Isabella Stoeger)

18.05    Own Research (Nico Straube)

25.05    Own Research (Fabian Schreiber)
                 Methods "Parallel Computation of the Likelihood Function" (Fabian Schreiber)

01.06    Pfingsten Vacations

08.06    Own Research (Sergio Vargas)

15.06    Cancelled

22.06    Paper: "Study of Birds" (Nico Straube)
                  Methods "Bayesian Inference" (Andre Aberer)

29.06    Paper: "Dunn et al." (Isabella Stoeger) 
            Papers: "Schierwater versus Herve" (Sergio Vargas)

06.07    Own research (Klementyna Karlinska)

13.07    Methods "Computing RF distances" (Safak Ökmen)

20.07    Tree Reconstruction (Alexis)

We will supplement the presentations with ad hoc lectures on phylogeny reconstruction and a bit of a RAxML tutorial.


CS Subjects & Papers:

Models:
Algorithms:
Parallel Computing:
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Biology Papers: