Welcome

Schedule

Modelling molecular evolution and phylogenetics

Time Topic Lecturer
08:30 - 09:30 Markov models of substitutions Maria
09:30 - 10:00 Practical: Data formats and visualisation Lorenzo
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:30 Hypothesis testing, model selection Maria
11:30 - 12:00 Practical: Hypothesis testing, model selection with PHYML Lorenzo
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 14:15 Practical: Tree-thinking quiz (in small groups) Maria (?)
14:15 - 15:15 Phylogenetic inference Maria
15:15 - 15:45 Break  
15:45 - 17:00 ML tree inference: Exercises with PHYML Lorenzo
17:00 The end  

Detecting positive selection with codon models

Time Topic Lecturer
08:30 - 09:15 Natural selection and codon models Maria
09:15 - 10:00 Practical: Exercises with PAML (basics, one ratio model) Lorenzo
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:15 tba Maria
11:15 - 12:00 Practical: Exercises with PAML (branch models) Lorenzo
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 15:00 Site models, detecting residues under selection Maria
15:00 - 15:30 break  
15:30 - 17:00 Practical: Exercises with PAML (site models) Lorenzo
17:00 The end  
17:15 After the course, we will head to a pub in town for anyone who fancies joining!  

Detecting episodic positive selection & Bio-Pipeline building

Time Topic Lecturer
08:30 - 09:15 Introduction on episodic positive selection Maria
09:15 - 09:45 Practical: Detecting episodic positive selection using small dataset Lorenzo
09:45 - 10:05 Break  
10:05 - 10:30 Small introduction on how to design a computational pipeline for phylogenetic analyses Maria
10:30 - 11:00 Practical: Tutorial session on how to build pipelines Lorenzo
11:00 - 12:00 Open Q/A session + hands-on using participants’ datasets

Installation

Software
Phylogenetic tree reconstruction
Positive selection analyses
Sequence alignment visualizers
Tree visualizers
Tutorials

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