Phylogenetics is the reconstruction and analysis of trees and networks to describe and understand the evolution of species, populations and individuals. It is widely used in molecular biology and other areas of classification (such as linguistics), and has both led to and benefited from the development of new mathematical, statistical and computational techniques. Although the foundations of phylogenetics were laid down many decades ago, it is currently experiencing an exciting renaissance due to the wealth and types of biological data that are now becoming available. This programme will bring together key researchers in phylogenetics and related areas to further develop this important area of mathematical biology.
The main themes that will be worked on during this programme are new data types in phylogenetics; modelling reticulate evolution; constructing large trees; probabilistic models of evolution; and phylogenetic combinatorics. These themes provide a rich source of mathematical problems in areas such as combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, topology, and algebraic geometry. Solutions to these problems will provide new insights to questions that are central to contemporary evolutionary biology.
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Title | Year | Programme | |
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Optimizing phylogenetic diversity across two treesAuthors: Charles Semple, Andreas Spillner, Magnus Bordewich |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Optimal realizations of generic 5-point metricsAuthors: Alice Lesser, Vincent Moulton, Jack Koolen |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Worst-case optimal approximation algorithms for maximizing triplet consistency within phylogenetic newtorksAuthors: Katharina Huber, Steven Kelk, J Byrka |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Consistency of topological moves based on the balanced minimum evolution principle of phylogenetic inferenceAuthors: Olivier Gascuel, Katharina Huber, Vincent Moulton, Magnus Bordewich |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Robustness of topological supertree methods for reconciling dense incompatible dataAuthors: Stephen Willson |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Selecting taxa to save or sequence: desirable criteria and a greedy solutionAuthors: Allen Rodrigo, Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Phylogenetic diversity on split networksAuthors: Steffan Klaere, Arndt von Haeseler, BQ Minh |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
A generalized scaling function for AdS/CFTAuthors: A Rej, M Staudacher, L Freyhult |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Using supernetworks to distinguish hybridization from lineage-sortingAuthors: S Benthin, Peter James Lockhart, Vincent Moulton, Katharina Huber, Barbara Holland |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Block realizations of finite metrics and the tight-span construction I: the embedding theoremAuthors: Katharina Huber, Jack Koolen, Vincent Moulton, Andreas Dress |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
Identifiability of latent class models with many observed variablesAuthors: Catherine Matias, John Anthony Rhodes, Elizabeth Allman |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
A phylogenetic mixture model for gene family loss parasitic bacteriaAuthors: Ajanthah Sangaralingam, Matthew Spencer |
2007 | PLG | 21 October 2016 |
3 September 2007 to 7 September 2007
22 October 2007 to 24 October 2007
6 December 2007 to 6 December 2007
17 December 2007 to 21 December 2007
20 June 2011 to 24 June 2011
Monday 10th September 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 11th September 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 |
Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 15:00 |
Geoff Nicholls University of Oxford |
Room 1 |
Monday 17th September 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 18th September 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Daniel Huson |
Room 2 |
Monday 24th September 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 25th September 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Charles Semple University of Canterbury |
Room 2 |
Friday 28th September 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 18:00 | Room 1 |
Tuesday 2nd October 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Elchanan Mossel |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 9th October 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Stephen Willson Iowa State University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 11th October 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 18:00 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 13:00 |
Phylogenetics: interactions between mathematics and evolution |
Room 1 | |
Monday 15th October 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 16th October 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Elizabeth Allman University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Room 2 |
Monday 29th October 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 30th October 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Laszlo Szekely Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) |
Room 2 |
Monday 5th November 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 6th November 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Arndt von Haeseler |
Room 2 |
Thursday 8th November 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 16:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 12th November 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 13th November 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 | Room 2 |
Monday 19th November 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 20th November 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Leen Stougie |
Room 1 | |
Monday 26th November 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 27th November 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Andreas Dress Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
Monday 3rd December 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 | ||
17:00 to 18:00 |
Andreas Dress Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Room 1 | |
Tuesday 4th December 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Tandy Warnow Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin |
Room 1 | |
Thursday 6th December 2007 | |||
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17:30 to 18:30 | No Room Required |
Monday 10th December 2007 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
Tuesday 11th December 2007 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Katherine St John City University of New York |
Room 2 |
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