PLGW01
3 September 2007 to 7 September 2007
Phylogenetic trees and networks are central to modern molecular evolutionary biology, with applications ranging from the origin of viruses (e.g. HIV, influenza) to modelling plant and animal radiations. As biologists attempt to reconstruct larger slices of the 'tree of life' using increasingly complex data, and incorporating more accurate models of molecular evolution, mathematics (and its sister fields, statistics and computer science) is increasingly being seen as an essential tool.
This workshop will showcase some of the recent achievements, challenges and new problems that arise in using mathematical approaches to understand molecular evolution. Topics covered will include: phylogenomics, molecular epidemiology, genetic biodiversity and phylogeography, processes of reticulate evolution (such as horizontal gene transfer), haplotype mapping by perfect phylogeny, population genetics in phylogeny, and metagenomics.
In addition this workshop will launch (and set the agenda for) a 4-month workshop of collaboration and research at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in a program on Phylogenetics, which will bring mathematicians and biologists together to develop new approaches in molecular phylogenetics.
Monday 3rd September 2007 | |||
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08:30 to 09:55 | No Room Required | ||
09:55 to 10:00 | Room 1 | ||
10:00 to 11:00 |
Tandy Warnow Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 11:50 |
Daniel Huson |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:10 |
Barbara Holland Massey University |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Heng Li |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Mark Pagel University of Reading |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 15:50 |
Gabriele Margos University of Bath |
Room 1 | |
15:50 to 16:10 |
Katherine St John City University of New York |
Room 1 | |
16:10 to 16:30 |
Benny Chor |
Room 1 | |
16:45 to 18:30 | No Room Required | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 4th September 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Olivier Gascuel CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) |
Room 1 | |
10:00 to 10:20 |
Stephen Willson Iowa State University |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Katharina Huber University of East Anglia |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:00 |
Sagi Snir |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 11:50 |
Dan Gusfield University of California, Davis |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:10 |
Quartet compatability: new results and surprising counterexamples |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Andreas Brandstaedt |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Gabriel Valiente Technical University of Catalonia |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 15:50 |
Fabio Pardi CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) |
Room 1 | |
15:50 to 16:10 |
Tanja Gernhard Technische Universität München |
Room 1 | |
16:10 to 16:30 |
Ruriko Yoshida University of Kentucky |
Room 1 | |
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
Wednesday 5th September 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Michal Kucera |
Room 1 | |
10:00 to 10:20 |
Mahendra Mariadassou |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Dirk Metzler |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:00 |
Elizabeth Allman University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Likelihood calculations on the ancestral recombination graph |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
Thursday 6th September 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
David Posada Universidad de Vigo |
Room 1 | |
10:00 to 10:20 |
Frederick Matsen University of California |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Shlomo Moran Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:00 |
Ilan Gronau Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 11:50 |
Charles Semple University of Canterbury |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:10 |
Andreas Spillner Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Klaas Hartmann University of Canterbury |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Allen Rodrigo University of Auckland |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 15:50 |
Brent Charles Emerson University of East Anglia |
Room 1 | |
15:50 to 16:10 |
Mark Wilkinson |
Room 1 | |
19:30 to 23:00 | No Room Required |
Friday 7th September 2007 | |||
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09:00 to 10:00 |
Ingo Ebersberger Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV) |
Room 1 | |
10:00 to 10:20 |
Magnus Bordewich University of Durham |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Alice Lesser Uppsala Universitet |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:00 |
Peter Humphries University of Canterbury |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Stars, nets, and the "war on error": Six mathematical challenges |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 12:35 | No Room Required | ||
12:35 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
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