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Course Using Geiger, Phytools, and other Computational Tools to Study Macroevolution on Phylogenies, 16-19 July, Greece.

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   Dear colleagues,<= /p>
   
   Registration is open for Transmitting Science course: R= 20;USING
   GEIGER, PHYTOOLS, AND OTHER COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO STUDY MACROEVOL=
   UTION ON PHYLOGENIES"
   
   Dates and place: July 16th-19th, 2019, Cr= ete (Greece).
   
   Instructors: Dr Liam Revell (University of Massachusett= s Boston,
   USA) and Dr Luke Harmon (University of Idaho, USA).
   
   PROGRAM=
   
   Monday
   
   - Introduction to phylogenies and the comparative metho= d. [Lecture]
   
   - Introduction the basics of the R statistical comp= uting
   environment. [Exercise]
   
   - Introduction to reading, writing= , manipulating, and visualizing
   phylogenies and comparative data in R. = ;[Exercise]
   
   - Models of phenotypic trait evolution on trees: Brownian=
   motion. [Lecture]
   
   - Simulating Brownian motion on trees using R= . [Exercise]
   
   - Introduction to the phylogenetic comparative meth= od: Phylogenetic
   independent contrasts. [Lecture]
   
   - Phylogenetic= independent contrasts and exploring the properties of
   contrasts regression= using simulation in R. [Exercise]
   
   - Phylogenetic generalized le= ast squares regression and phylogenetic
   generalized ANOVA. [Exercise]<= /p>
   
    Tuesday
   
   - Multivariate statistical methods with phylogeni= es: Phylogenetic
   principal components analysis, canonical correlation analy= sis, and
   other approaches. [Lecture]
   
   - Phylogenetic PCA and phyl= ogenetic CCA in R. [Exercise]
   
   - Continuous character models of t= rait evolution on
   phylogenies. [Lecture]
   
   - Fitting continuous ch= aracter models to univariate trait data in
   R. [Exercise]
   
   - = Ancestral state reconstruction I: Continuous characters. [Lecture]
   
   -  Reconstructing ancestral states for continuous traits on phylog=
   enies using R. [Exercise]
   
   Wednesday
   
   - Ancestral state reco= nstruction II: Discrete characters. [Lecture]
   
   - Reconstructing a= ncestral states for discrete traits on phylogenies
   using R. [Exercise]=
   
   - Exploring the limitations of ancestral state reconstruction for co=
   ntinuous and discrete characters on phylogenies using R. [Exercise]
   
   - Testing for the influence of one discrete character on a second
   using= Pagel's (1994) method. [Lecture]
   
   - Exploring the promise = and limitations of the Pagel (1994) method
   using R. [Exercise]
   
   -= Analysing discrete character coevolution, and the evolution of
   discrete an= d continuous characters using the threshold
   model. [Lecture]
   
   Thu= rsday
   
   - Fitting models of discrete and continuous character evolution= on
   trees using the threshold model. [Exercise]
   
   - Multi-rate, mu= lti-regime, and multivariate models of character
   evolution on phylogenies.&= #160;[Lecture]
   
   - Fitting multi-regime and multivariate models for con= tinuous
   character evolution in - [Exercise]
   
   - Visualizing trees = and phylogenetic comparative data. [Lecture]
   
   - Plotting phylogen= ies and comparative data using R. [Exercise]
   
   - Wrap-up and optio= nal additional exercise or lecture.
   
   More information and registration=
   [https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/evolution/using-geiger-ph
   ytoo=
   ls-other-computational-tools-study-macroevolution-phylogenies/](https:
   //www=
   .transmittingscience.org/courses/evolution/using-geiger-phytools-other
   -comp= utational-tools-study-macroevolution-phylogenies/)
   
   With best regards<= /p>
   
   Sole
   
   Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno,PhD.
   
   Scientific Dir= ector
   
   Transmitting Science
   
   [www.transmittingscience.org](http:/= /www.transmittingscience.org/)
   
   =20

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Course Using Geiger, Phytools, and other Computational Tools to Study Macroevolution on Phylogenies, 16-19 July, Greece. Soledad De Esteban Trivigno <soledad.esteban@transmittingscience.org> - 2019-03-12 07:59 +0100

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