Workshop Programme
for period 17-21 December
Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models
17-21 December
Timetable
| Monday 17 December |
| 08:30-09:55 |
Registration |
PLG |
| 09:55-10:00 |
Welcome - David Wallace |
PLG |
| Chair: Vincent Moulton |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Warnow, T (Texas at Austin) |
PLG |
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The tree of life: algorithmic and software challenges | Sem 1 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee |
PLG |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Nye, T (Newcastle ) |
PLG |
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Seeing the wood for trees: analysing multiple alternative phylogenies | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Fernandez-Sanchez, J (ETSEIB-UPC) |
PLG |
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Performance of new invariant methods for phylogenetic reconstuction | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
PLG |
| Chair: Kathi Huber |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Gilks, W (Leeds) |
PLG |
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Incorporating uncertainty in distance-matrix phylogenetic reconstruction | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Gronau, I (Technion) |
PLG |
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Adaptive fast convergence - towards optimal reconstruction guarantees for Phylogenetic trees | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Moran, S (Technion) |
PLG |
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On the hardness of inferring Phylogenies from triplet-dissimilarities | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Tea |
PLG |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Lacey, M (Tulane) |
PLG |
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A signal-to-noise analysis of phylogeny estimation by neighbour-joining | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Fischer, M (Canterbury) |
PLG |
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How many characters are needed to recontruct the true tree? | Sem 1 |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Naylor, G (Florida State) |
PLG |
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The deep phylogeny problem and its consequences | Sem 1 |
| 16:30-16:50 |
Lockhart, P (Massey) |
PLG |
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On the nature of heterotachy | Sem 1 |
| 16:50-18:00 |
Welcome Wine Reception |
PLG |
| 18:45-19:30 |
Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only) |
PLG |
| Tuesday 18 December |
| Chair: Stephen Willson |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Dress, A (Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
PLG |
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Recent progress in phylogenetic combinatorics | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Kupczok, A (CIBIV) |
PLG |
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An exact algorithm for computing the geodesic distance between phylogenetic trees | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Owen, M (Cornell) |
PLG |
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Practical distance computation in the space of phylogenetic trees | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Koolen, J (Pohang) |
PLG |
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Optimal realisations | Sem 1 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee |
PLG |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Rhodes, J (Alaska Fairbanks) |
PLG |
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The identifyability of matrix parameters for covarion-like models | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Bordewich, M (Durham) |
PLG |
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Optimising phylogenetic diversity across two trees | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
PLG |
| Chair: Magnus Bordewich |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Yoshida, R (Kentucky) |
PLG |
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On the optimality of the neighbour-joining algorithm | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Moulton, V (East Anglia) |
PLG |
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Encoding phylogenetic trees with weighted quartets | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Semple, C (Canterbury) |
PLG |
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Identifying Phylogenies: extending the notion of unique | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Tea |
PLG |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Wagner, P (Rostock) |
PLG |
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On (k.l)-leaf powers | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:20 |
Howe, C (Cambridge) |
PLG |
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Phylogenetics of medieval manuscripts | Sem 1 |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Discussion |
PLG |
| Thursday 20 December |
| Chair: Daniel Huson |
| 09:00-10:00 |
Roger, A (Dalhousie ) |
PLG |
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Markov models of protein evolution: Lets get real! | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Gesell, T (MFPL, Vienna ) |
PLG |
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A phylogenetic definition of structure and further animations on the sequence space | Sem 1 |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Zhang, L (Singapore) |
PLG |
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Selecting genomes for reconstruction of ancestral genomes | Sem 1 |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Catanzaro, D (Libre de Bruxelles) |
PLG |
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MIP models for phylenetic reconstruction under minimum evolution | Sem 1 |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee |
PLG |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Baele, G (Gent) |
PLG |
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Challenges in modeling context-dependent evolution | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Whelan, S (Manchester) |
PLG |
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A simple model for a complex world | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch at Wolfson Court |
PLG |
| Chair: Charles Semple |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Nisbet, E (Cambridge) |
PLG |
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Evolution of Chloroplasts | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:40 |
St John, K (New York) |
PLG |
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Untangling tanglegrams | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Linz, S (Canterbury) |
PLG |
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Hybridisation in non-binary trees | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Tea |
PLG |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Huson, D (Tubingen) |
PLG |
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Phylogenetic networks | Sem 1 |
| 15:50-16:10 |
Willson, S (Iowa State) |
PLG |
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Reconstruction of certain phylogenetic networks from the genomes at leaves | Sem 1 |
| 16:10-16:30 |
Discussion |
PLG |
| 19:30-23:00 |
Conference Dinner at Corpus Christi College |
PLG |
