Workshop Programme
for period 3-7 September
EMBO Workshop on Current Challenges and Problems in Phylogenetics
3-7 September
Timetable
| Tuesday 04 September |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Gascuel, O (Montpellier) |
PLG |
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Advances and limitations of maximum likelihood phylogenetics | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Willson, SJ (Iowa State) |
PLG |
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Restrictions on meaningful phylogenetic networks | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Huber, K (East Anglia) |
PLG |
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Inference rules for super-network construction | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Snir, S (Netanya) |
PLG |
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Maximum parsimony on phylogenetic networks: some rigorous results | Sem 1 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee |
PLG |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Gusfield, D (California) |
PLG |
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Integer programming for phylogenetic computations | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Grunewald, S (Chinese Academy of Science) |
PLG |
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Quartet compatability: new results and surprising counterexamples | Sem 1 |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Brandstaedt, A (Rostock) |
PLG |
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On k-leaf powers | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
PLG |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Valiente, G (Catalonia) |
PLG |
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Tripartitions in phylogenetic networks | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Tea |
PLG |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Pardi, F (EMBL) |
PLG |
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Branch and bound construction of balanced minimum evolution optimal trees | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Gernhard, T (Munchen) |
PLG |
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New analytical results for the speciation times in neutral models | Sem 1 |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Yoshida, R (Kentucky) |
PLG |
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Partitioning the sample space on five taxa for the neighbour joining algorithm | Sem 1 |
| 18:45-19:30 |
Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only) |
PLG |
| Thursday 06 September |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Posada, DP (Vigo) |
PLG |
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Model averaging in phylogenies | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Matsen, FA (California) |
PLG |
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Glimpses from the strange world of phylogenetic mixtures | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Moran, S (Israel) |
PLG |
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Neighbor joining algorithms for inferring phylogenies via LCA-distances | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Gronau, I (Israel Institute of Technology) |
PLG |
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Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees with very short branches | Sem 1 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee |
PLG |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Semple, C (Canterbury) |
PLG |
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Nature reserve selection problems | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Spillner, A (East Anglia) |
PLG |
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Computing phylogenetic diversity for split systems | Sem 1 |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Hartmann, K (Canterbury) |
PLG |
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Prioritising species for biodoversity conservation | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
PLG |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Rodrigo, AG (Auckland) |
PLG |
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Big trees: challenges and opportunites in the phylogenetic analysis of large data sets | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Tea |
PLG |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Emerson, BC (East Anglia) |
PLG |
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Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy and recombination in a reptilian secondary contact zone | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Wilkinson, M (Natural History Museum) |
PLG |
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Generalising from consensus to supertree methods | Sem 1 |
| 19:30-23:00 |
Conference Dinner - Christ's College Dining Hall |
PLG |
