Computational Molecular Evolution

General info

Date 

03 May 2010 - 12 May 2010 

Location

Iraklio (Heraklion), Crete

Website

http://cwp.embo.org/pc10-25/

Keywords

genomics resources and sequence alignments interpretation of molecular phylogenetic trees and sequence phylogeny reconstruction models hypothesis testing in phylogenetics coalescent model and inference from population data

Organiser

EMBO

Description

The need for effective and informed analysis of biological sequence data is increasing with the explosive growth of biological sequence databases. A molecular evolutionary framework is central to many Bioinformatics approaches used in these analyses, e.g., de novo gene -nding from genomic sequences.

This course will teach state-of-the-art methods in molecular sequence evolution, with strong emphasis on practical computational techniques.

This EMBO Practical Course aims to provide researchers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to carry out molecular evolutionary analysis on their own data and on data drawn from sequence databases. The course will combine basic assumptions and ideas fundamental to the field with discussion of cutting-edge methodologies, and is therefore relevant to researchers with a range of different experience levels.

This course is essentially the same as that which ran successfully as a Wellcome Trust Advanced Course at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK, in Spring 2009.  

Programme

• interpretation of molecular phylogenetic trees and sequence alignments
• genomics resources and sequence alignments
• phylogeny reconstruction models
• hypothesis testing in phylogenetics
• coalescent model and inference from population data  

Course organisers 

• Nick Goldman (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
• Ziheng Yang (University College London)
• Aidan Budd (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)
• Alexandros Stamatakis (Technical University of Munich)
• Giorgos Kotoulas (Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Heraklion)

Guest instructors

• Michail Averof (Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion)
• Martin Embley (University of Newcastle)
• Olivier Gascuel (LIRMM, Montpellier)
• Javier Herrero (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
• John Huelsenbeck (University of California, Berkeley)
• Carolin Kosiol (Veterinary Medical University, Vienna)
• Aoife McLysaght (Trinity College Dublin)
• Rasmus Nielsen (University of California, Berkeley)
• Bill Pearson (University of Virginia)
• Antonis Rokas (Vanderbilt University)
• Mikkel Schierup (Aahrus University, Denmark)
• Jeff Thorne (North Carolina State University)
• Ken Wolfe (Trinity College Dublin)

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2010