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/)
