Future directions in phylogenetic methods and models

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Workshop theme

This workshop will showcase the leading edge of phylogenetic theory -- from questions and challenges posed by biologists, to novel approaches for dealing with new types of data, and an outline of outstanding mathematical problems to be resolved. The workshop will be based around the following themes (one for each day):

Challenges for tree reconstruction from molecular data
Population genetic aspects of phylogenetics
Phylogenetic combinatorics and algebra
Speciation, extinction and tree shape
The tree of life

The Organisers would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the event:

Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Timetable

Monday 17th December 2007
08:30 to 09:55	Registration	No Room Required
09:55 to 10:00	Welcome - David Wallace	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Tandy Warnow Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin The tree of life: algorithmic and software challenges	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 11:50	Seeing the wood for trees: analysing multiple alternative phylogenies	Room 1
11:50 to 12:10	Performance of new invariant methods for phylogenetic reconstuction	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:20	Walter Gilks University of Leeds Incorporating uncertainty in distance-matrix phylogenetic reconstruction	Room 1
14:20 to 14:40	Ilan Gronau Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Adaptive fast convergence - towards optimal reconstruction guarantees for Phylogenetic trees	Room 1
14:40 to 15:00	Shlomo Moran Technion - Israel Institute of Technology On the hardness of inferring Phylogenies from triplet-dissimilarities	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 15:50	Michelle Lacey Tulane University A signal-to-noise analysis of phylogeny estimation by neighbour-joining	Room 1
15:50 to 16:10	Mareike Fischer Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV) How many characters are needed to recontruct the true tree?	Room 1
16:10 to 16:30	Gavin Naylor Florida State University The deep phylogeny problem and its consequences	Room 1
16:30 to 16:50	Peter James Lockhart Massey University On the nature of heterotachy	Room 1
16:50 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 18th December 2007
09:00 to 10:00	Andreas Dress Chinese Academy of Sciences Recent progress in phylogenetic combinatorics	Room 1
10:00 to 10:20	Anne Kupczok Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria) An exact algorithm for computing the geodesic distance between phylogenetic trees	Room 1
10:20 to 10:40	Megan Owen Cornell University Practical distance computation in the space of phylogenetic trees	Room 1
10:40 to 11:00	Jack Koolen Optimal realisations	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 11:50	John Anthony Rhodes University of Alaska Fairbanks The identifyability of matrix parameters for covarion-like models	Room 1
11:50 to 12:10	Magnus Bordewich University of Durham Optimising phylogenetic diversity across two trees	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:20	Ruriko Yoshida University of Kentucky On the optimality of the neighbour-joining algorithm	Room 1
14:20 to 14:40	Vincent Moulton University of East Anglia Encoding phylogenetic trees with weighted quartets	Room 1
14:40 to 15:00	Charles Semple University of Canterbury Identifying Phylogenies: extending the notion of unique	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 15:50	Peter Wagner On (k.l)-leaf powers	Room 1
15:50 to 16:20	Christopher Howe University of Cambridge Phylogenetics of medieval manuscripts	Room 1
16:20 to 16:40	Discussion	Room 1

Wednesday 19th December 2007
09:00 to 10:00	David Aldous University of California, Berkeley Some broad questions about the tree of life	Room 1
10:00 to 10:20	Tanja Gernhard Technische Universität München Ranked tree shapes, shuffles, and a new test for neutrality	Room 1
10:20 to 10:40	Beáta Faller University of Canterbury Distribution of phylogenetic diversity under random extinction	Room 1
10:40 to 11:10	Coffee	No Room Required
11:10 to 11:30	Arndt von Haeseler 10 Men and 1 woman?	Room 1
11:30 to 11:50	Discussion	Room 1
12:00 to 13:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:00 to 17:00	Excursion to Bletchley Park	Room 1
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Thursday 20th December 2007
09:00 to 10:00	Andrew Roger Dalhousie University Markov models of protein evolution: Lets get real!	Room 1
10:00 to 10:20	Tanja Gesell A phylogenetic definition of structure and further animations on the sequence space	Room 1
10:20 to 10:40	Louxin Zhang National University of Singapore Selecting genomes for reconstruction of ancestral genomes	Room 1
10:40 to 11:00	Daniele Catanzaro Université Libre de Bruxelles MIP models for phylenetic reconstruction under minimum evolution	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 11:50	Guy Baele Universiteit Gent Challenges in modeling context-dependent evolution	Room 1
11:50 to 12:10	Simon Whelan University of Manchester A simple model for a complex world	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:20	Ellen Nisbet University of Cambridge Evolution of Chloroplasts	Room 1
14:20 to 14:40	Katherine St John City University of New York Untangling tanglegrams	Room 1
14:40 to 15:00	Simone Linz Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Hybridisation in non-binary trees	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 15:50	Daniel Huson Phylogenetic networks	Room 1
15:50 to 16:10	Stephen Willson Iowa State University Reconstruction of certain phylogenetic networks from the genomes at leaves	Room 1
16:10 to 16:30	Discussion	Room 1
19:30 to 23:00	Conference Dinner at Corpus Christi College	No Room Required

Friday 21st December 2007
09:00 to 10:00	Noah Rosenberg University of Michigan Lineage sorting and multi-species coalescent models	Room 1
10:00 to 10:20	James Degnan University of Michigan Coalescent consequences for consensus cladograms	Room 1
10:20 to 10:40	The influence of effective population size on a genome-wide positive selection scan	Room 1
10:40 to 11:00	A genealogical approach to studying asexuality	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 11:50	Anthony Labarre Université Libre de Bruxelles Minimum common supergraphs and haplotype networks	Room 1
11:50 to 12:10	Elchanan Mossel Incomplete lineage sorting: consistent phylogeny estimation from multiple loci	Room 1
12:10 to 12:30	Discussion, concluding remarks	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required

Speakers

David Aldous University of California
Guy Baele Universiteit Gent
Magnus Bordewich University of Oxford
Daniele Catanzaro Université Libre de Bruxelles
James Degnan University of Michigan
Andreas Dress Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beáta Faller University of Canterbury
Mareike Fischer Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV)
Tanja Gernhard Technische Universität München
Tanja Gesell
Walter Gilks University of Cambridge
Ilan Gronau Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Christopher Howe University of Cambridge
Daniel Huson
Jack Koolen
Anne Kupczok Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)
Anthony Labarre Université Libre de Bruxelles
Michelle Lacey Tulane University
Simone Linz Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Peter James Lockhart Massey University
Shlomo Moran Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Elchanan Mossel Microsoft (UK)
Vincent Moulton University of East Anglia
Gavin Naylor Florida State University
Ellen Nisbet University of Cambridge
Megan Owen Cornell University
John Anthony Rhodes University of Alaska Fairbanks
Andrew Roger Dalhousie University
Noah Rosenberg University of Michigan
Charles Semple University of Canterbury
Katherine St John City University of New York
Arndt von Haeseler
Peter Wagner
Tandy Warnow Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin
Simon Whelan
Stephen Willson Iowa State University
Ruriko Yoshida University of Kentucky
Louxin Zhang National University of Singapore

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Future directions in phylogenetic methods and models

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