SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP on
Bayesian inference of phylogeny

Portrait of Thomas BayesTalks: Monday & Tuesday, August 15-16
Workshop: Wednesday to Friday, August 17-19

Where: UC Berkeley campus (talks will be held in 155 Dwinelle Hall and the workshop will be held in 4110 VLSB) Click here for a map.

Contact John Huelsenbeck for details.

There will be a mini-symposium on Bayesian inference of phylogeny to be held on the UC Berkeley campus from August 15th to 19th. There will be two days of talks (August 15th and 16th) on various aspects of Bayesian inference as it applies to the phylogeny problem. The following three days will be a workshop for people interested in developing for the RevBayes program. RevBayes implements an R-like language for specifying complex evolutionary models and (attempts) to perform solid statistical estimation of a model's parameters.

Schedule

Monday, August 15

10:00-11:00 am

John Huelsenbeck (UC Berkeley)

11:00 am-12:00 noon

Brian Moore (UC Davis): A Bayesian approach for estimating phylogenies from partitioned data

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm

Bastien Boussau (UC Berkeley): Integrative models of genome evolution

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00-4:00 pm

Tracy Heath (UC Berkeley): Dirichlet process models for estimating lineage-specific substitution rates and dating species divergences

4:00-5:00 pm

Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley): Recent Developments in Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference


Tuesday, August 16

10:00-11:00 am

Ian Holmes (UC Berkeley): Phylogenetic automata and grammars

11:00 am-12:00 noon

Jeff Thorne (NCSU): Estimating species divergence times with molecular sequence data but without fossils

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm

Sebastian Höhna (Stockholm University): Birth-Death Processes and Priors on Trees and Divergence Times   Slides

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00-4:00 pm

Jeet Sukumaran (KU)

4:00-5:00 pm

Fredrik Ronquist (Stockholm University): Dating phylogenies with poorly preserved fossils