Algorithms for the reconstruction of phylogeny

19 720 Algorithms for the reconstruction of phylogeny (Schwerpunkte B,C)

• Time: Tuesday 3pm
• Place: MPI-MG, Ihnestrasse 73, seminar room on the third floor, main building

• May 16
  Henning Stehr:
  Species Choice for Comparative Genomics: Being Greedy Works
  (Pardi, Goldman)
• May 23
  Martin Vingron:
  Maximum Likelihood methods for detecting adaptive evolution
  (Bielawski, Yang)
• May 30
  Philipp Messer:
  Models of Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny
  (Lio, Goldman)
• June 6
  Christopher Hardt:
  Likelihood-Based Tests of Topologies in Phylogenetics
  (Goldman, Anderson, Rodrigo)
• June 13
  Federico Squartini:
  Application of Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Studies
  (Huson, Bryant)
• June 20
  Jost Neigenfind:
  A Structural EM Algorithm for Phylogenetic Inference
  (Friedman et al.)
• June 27
  Nicole de la Chaux:
  Disk-Covering, a Fast-Converging Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
  (Huson, Nettles, Warnow)
• July 4
  Sebastian Mackowiak:
  The ring of life
  (Rivera, Lake)
• July 11
  Edna Maria Suarez Diaz
  About the history of research on molecular evolution