2019 Workshop – applications now open
Applications for the 2019 Workshop are open until December 12, 2018. Apply now.
Category Archives: Workshop
2017 Bodega Bay Workshop – Apply now!
Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. This year’s workshop will run from March 11 to 18 at the Bodega Bay Marine Lab on the northern California Coast. The application deadline is January 31st. See the 2017 workshop page for more information and instructions to apply.
2016 Bodega Workshop
Every spring for the last sixteen years, we have held the Bodega Applied
Phylogenetic workshop for graduate students interested in applying
phylogenetic methods to diverse topics in biology. For logistical reasons,
it is necessary for the course to take a sabbatical in the spring of
2016. The Bodega course return in the spiring of 2017.
We look forward to seeing you next year!
Brian Moore & Peter Wainwright
Organizers
2015 Bodega Bay Workshop – Apply now
Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. This year’s workshop will run from March 7 to 14 at the Bodega Bay Marine Lab on the northern California Coast. The application deadline is January 10th. See the 2015 workshop page for more information and instructions to apply.
2014 Bodega Bay Workshop – Apply now
Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 Workshop in Applied Phylogenetics. This year’s workshop will run from March 8 to 15 at the Bodega Bay Marine Lab on the northern California Coast. The application deadline is January 3rd. See the 2014 workshop page for more information and instructions to apply.
Trevor Bedford’s BEAST Tutorial on Viral Phylodynamics
Many participants of the molecular evolution workshops I attend are very interested in methods for estimating the evolutionary dynamics of serially-sampled pathogens. Recent versions of BEAST and BEAST2 have some of the most exciting and cutting-edge models for understanding evolutionary processes in these data. Because of this, I wanted to call your attention to a new tutorial on this subject:
Trevor Bedford has posted a tutorial entitled: Inferring spatiotemporal dynamics of the H1N1 influenza pandemic from sequence data.
He provides several detailed exercises that will surely help anyone new to these methods understand how to analyze their own data in BEAST. Interestingly, Trevor is hosting his tutorial on github, which I think is a great idea.
Updated BEAST Tutorial
I really enjoy teaching and participating in phylogenetics workshops. Currently, I’m preparing my teaching materials for the Wellcome Trust-EMBL-EBI Advanced Course on Computational Molecular Evolution, where I have the awesome opportunity to teach a section on divergence time estimation with Jeff Thorne. Since I’ve made some minor updates to the BEAST tutorial that I’ve given at recent workshops, I wanted to create a more permanent page to host the document and data files. So, for those interested, you can find the updated tutorial here. I will try to keep this tutorial as up-to-date as possible.
Introducing The Bodega Bay Applied Phylogenetics Class of 2013!
Student Presentations!
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- Marek Borowiec and Chris Hamilton talk about trees for mygalomorphs and malagasy ants.
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- Maria Medeiros and Suman Neupane lead off with a discussion of divergence times in Rubiaceae.
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- Stephanie Haddad and Sergey Tarasov have an inordinate fondness for beetle phylogeny.
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- Bruno de Medeiros and Federico Lopez on wasps, weevils, and beautiful trace files.
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- Christoph Liedtke and Cesar Herrera’s talk on toad time trees.
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- Judy Wexler and Anaëlle Soulebeau on correlated trait evolution in malagasy euphorbia.
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- JR Wood, Phillip Skipwith, and Mike May talk about evolution of lizards and toads.
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- Victor Tagliacollo and Matt McGee study the evolution of electric fish (and spark shocking-ly bad puns).
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- Jon Kennedy and Hannah Marx discuss whether malagasy vangids are an adaptive radiation
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- Jacob Landis and John Chau discuss evolution of flower pollination morphology
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- Caroline Dong and Evan McCartney-Melstad discuss phylogeny and divergence times of some (relatively) hyperdiverse turtles
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- Michael San Jose and Áki Laruson talk about the evolution of polyphagy in flies
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- Susan Hepp and Angus Chandler – A Virus of the Yams
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- Ichthornithologists Sarah Longo and Glenn Seeholzer on ovenbirds and seahorses.
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- Traci Grzymala and Jose Zuñiga discuss divergence times and trait evolution in beetles.
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- Gabriela Garcia-Soto and Marcelo Reginato talk about the evolution of anther and ovary shape.
photos: Luke Mahler
Brian Moore Lectures On Diversification Rates
