Topics treated may include any or all of the following: – Advanced options and additional programs for parsimony analysis – Options for coding and reconstruction of morphological characters – Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analysis – Total evidence methods and supertree methods – Gap-coding and alignment methods – Molecular dating methods
(See also: MSc Course: Introduction to phylogenetic analysis)
Coordinator
Dr. P. H. Hovenkamp, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, e-mail: hovenkamp@nhn.leidenuniv.nl
Organizer:
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Wageningen branch / Biosystematics Group Wageningen University
Methods of instruction
A weeklong series of workshops including lectures, computer use, literature study and discussion.
Course requirements/recommendations
MSc. Course: Introduction to phylogenetic analysis
The course is aimed at advanced MSc or PhD students who need to use phylogenetic analysis in the course of a project and who have collected at least some data to be analyzed, but is also open for staff members who want to brush up on the topics included. Practical work will be aimed at \“getting a leg-up\” with the analysis of the students data. It is therefore important that each student brings a dataset in a readable format (Nexus or Hennig86-format) to work with.
Application
Registration is open (hovenkamp@nhn.leidenuniv.nl). When the minimum number of participants is reached, the course will be scheduled after consultation with all participants.
Remarks
Reader, approx. EURO 15.
Otherwise, the course is free of charge for participants associated with the Research School Biodiversity.
Outside participants are charged € 500,-
Minimum groupsize is 5, maximum 15
Credit Hours 100