Dear colleagues,
Registration is open for = Transmitting Science course: "USING GEIGER,
PHYTOOLS, AND OTHER COMPU= TATIONAL TOOLS TO STUDY MACROEVOLUTION ON
PHYLOGENIES"
Dates an= d place: July 16th-19th, 2019, Crete (Greece).
Instructors: Dr Liam R= evell (University of Massachusetts Boston,
USA) and Dr Luke Harmon (Univers= ity of Idaho, USA).
PROGRAM
Monday
- Introduction to phyl= ogenies and the comparative method. [Lecture]
- Introduction the= basics of the R statistical computing
environment. [Exercise]
-= Introduction to reading, writing, manipulating, and visualizing
phylogenie= s and comparative data in R. [Exercise]
- Models of phenotypic t= rait evolution on trees: Brownian
motion. [Lecture]
- Simulating= Brownian motion on trees using R. [Exercise]
- Introduction to = the phylogenetic comparative method: Phylogenetic
independent contrasts.:-)= 60;[Lecture]
- Phylogenetic independent contrasts and exploring the p= roperties of
contrasts regression using simulation in R. [Exercise]
- Phylogenetic generalized least squares regression and phylogenetic
ge= neralized ANOVA. [Exercise]
Tuesday
- Multivariate s= tatistical methods with phylogenies: Phylogenetic
principal components anal= ysis, canonical correlation analysis, and
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- Phylogenetic PCA and phylogenetic CCA in R. [Exercise]
-= Continuous character models of trait evolution on
phylogenies. [Lectu= re]
- Fitting continuous character models to univariate trait data in R. [Exercise]
- Ancestral state reconstruction I: Continu= ous
characters. [Lecture]
- Reconstructing ancestral state= s for continuous traits on
phylogenies using R. [Exercise]
Wedne= sday
- Ancestral state reconstruction II: Discrete characters. [= Lecture]
- Reconstructing ancestral states for discrete traits on phy= logenies
using R. [Exercise]
- Exploring the limitations of ance= stral state reconstruction for
continuous and discrete characters on phylog= enies using
R. [Exercise]
- Testing for the influence of one dis= crete character on a second
using Pagel's (1994) method. [Lectur= e]
- Exploring the promise and limitations of the Pagel (1994) method using R. [Exercise]
- Analysing discrete character coevolution,= and the evolution of
discrete and continuous characters using the threshol= d
model. [Lecture]
Thursday
- Fitting models of discrete a= nd continuous character evolution on
trees using the threshold model. = [Exercise]
- Multi-rate, multi-regime, and multivariate models of cha= racter
evolution on phylogenies. [Lecture]
- Fitting multi-regim= e and multivariate models for continuous
character evolution in - [Exe= rcise]
- Visualizing trees and phylogenetic comparative data. [L= ecture]
- Plotting phylogenies and comparative data using R. [Ex= ercise]
- Wrap-up and optional additional exercise or lecture.
= More information and registration
[https://www.transmittingscience.org/cour ses/evolution/using-geiger-phytools-other-computational-tools-study-ma
croev olution-phylogenies/](https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/evol
ution /using-geiger-phytools-other-computational-tools-study-macroevolution-
phylo= genies/)
With best regards
Sole
Soledad De Esteban-Trivig= no,PhD.
Scientific Director
Transmitting Science
[ww= w.transmittingscience.org](http://www.transmittingscience.org/)
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