Dear colleagues,
The 7th edition of the course GEOMET= RIC MORPHOMETRICS AND PHYLOGENY
has open registration. Basic knowledge of G= eometric Morphometrics is
required.
GRANTS: Thanks to the donations o= f former participants, this year
there is a place for free at the course fo= r PhD students. If you
want to apply please send an e-mail to grants from transm=
ittingscience.org including: 1- Full name and country, 2- Short
project (ma= ximum 300 words), 3- Letter of your advisor stating if
you have any grant t= o develop your PhD. Deadline: March 31st.
INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Chris Kli= ngenberg (University of Manchester, UK).
DATES: September 12th -= ; 16th, 2016.
PLACE: Facilities of the Centre of Restauració i I= nterpretació
Paleontologica, Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barcelona (Spai= n).
Testimonials of previous editions: http://www.transmittingscience=
.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/#Testimonials
PROGRAM,
1. Phyloge= ny, trees and phylogenetic reasoning.
2. Brief review of geometric morph= ometrics (Procrustes fit, PCA,
etc.).
3. Mapping traits onto phylogenies= : squared-change parsimony.
4. Practice: making/editing Nexus files, map= ping morphometric data
onto the tree (Mesquite, MorphoJ).
5. Phylogeneti= c signal, morphometric traits and estimating
phylogeny.
6. Comparative m= ethods: independent contrasts.
7. Application in morphometrics: evolutio= nary allometry and size
correction.
8. Practice: comparative methods (Mo= rphoJ).
9. Application of comparative methods: morphological integration= .
10. Multi-level analyses of integration: inferring evolutionary
mechan= isms.
11. Application of comparative methods: partial least squares (eco=
morphology, etc.).
12. Practice; comparative methods (cont.).
13. Mor= phometrics, phylogenies and qualitative characters.
14. Disparity and di= versification.
15. Presentations of group work.
More information: =
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/ or
writing = to courses from transmittingscience.org
Organized by: Transmitting Science= , the Institut Catalá de
Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and the Counci= l of Hostalets de
Pierola.
Please feel free to distribute this inform= ation between your
colleagues if you consider it appropriate.
With be= st regards
Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
Scientific Di= rector
Transmitting Science
www.transmittingscience.org
