Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 17:02:48 -0100
From: cecilia at biosun.ba.cnr.it (Cecilia Lanave)
To: graziano at area.ba.cnr.it
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Training Course in Molecular Evolution
October 2-5, 1996
CIHEAM - Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo Bari (Italy)
funded by
CNR, Italy
and
EMBnet Education and Training Committee
The course is addressed to researchers in the field of Genetics and
Molecular Biology. It is designed to provide trainees with basic concepts in
Molecular Evolution; they will practice the use of the major computer
programs for evolutionary analysis. The major topics covered in the course
programme are:
a) nucleotide and protein alignment,
b) rates and patterns of nucleotide substitutions,
c) methods for estimating the number of substitutions in nucleotide and
protein sequences,
d) molecular phylogeny.
The course will include
* lectures on basic concepts and outstanding research in the field of
Molecular Evolution
* tutorials on algorithms and computer programmes for multiple alignments
and evolutionary analysis
* hands-on practice on the computer
Lecturers
Marcella Attimonelli, Bari (Italy)
Jaap Beintema, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Giorgio Bernardi, Paris (France)
Francois Catzeflis, Montpellier (France)
Wilfried de Jong, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Toby Gibson, Heidelberg (Germany)
Manolo Gouy, Lyon (France)
Dan Graur, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Edward Holmes, Oxford (UK)
Cecilia Lanave, Bari (Italy)
David Lipman, Bethesda, NIH (USA)
Graziano Pesole, Bari (Italy)
Cecilia Saccone, Bari (Italy)
Ken Wolfe, Dublin (Ireland)
A preliminary program is available
Registration Fee: 300,000 ITL
Accomodation and meals at the IAM college amount to 60,000 ITL/day.
Hands-on sessions will be limited to 25 students already having familiarity
with the most popular biological databases and packages. An extra fee of
250,000 ITL will be charged.
10 scholarships covering registration fee, extra fee for hands-on session,
accomodation and meals are available to junior scientists.
To apply send the registration form and a short CV.
For registration please fill in the Registration Form and send it back to
dr. Cecilia Lanave to the following e-mail address cecilia at area.ba.cnr.it.
Participants who prefer an hotel accomodation can contact the Organization
Secretary
Registration deadline: 27 July, 1996 for the registration form and
registration fee.
The above term and condition are also valid for those applying for a
scholarship award the registration fee will be reimbursed.
Accomodation and hands-on session can be settled within the same date or
anyway not later than 30 days before the beginning of the course.
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Training Course in Molecular Evolution
Bari, 2-5 October, 1996
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Wednesday, October 2, 1996
Lectures
9:00 - 9:40 Molecular Evolution, Strenghts and Weaknesses
Cecilia Saccone
9:45 - 10:30Genome Evolution
Giorgio Bernardi
Tutorials
11:00 - 11:45Sequence Retrieval Systems
Marcella Attimonelli
11:45 - 12:30Database searching and homologous sequences retrieval
Manolo Gouy
12:30 - 13:15Sequence alignment and multiple alignment
Speaker to be decided
Hands-on session
15:00 - 18:30Training on the usage of most common retrieval programs: SRS,
ACNUC,
HOVERGENE. Sequence extraction and application of most common
multiple
alignment programs. Choice of optimal parameters. Manual
adjustment of
multiple alignments (LINEUP)(PILEUP, CLUSTALW)..
Manolo Gouy, Marcella Attimonelli, ...
Thursday, October 3, 1996
Lectures
9:00 - 9:40 The molecular Evolution of Ribonuclease superfamily
Jaap Beintema
9:45 - 10:30Robustness and reliability in phylogeny reconstruction
Francois Catzeflis
Tutorials
11:00-11:45Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution
Dan Graur
11:45-12:30Genes in populations
Ken Wolfe
12:30-13:15Stochastic Models for estimating genetic distances. The
influence of base
composition
Graziano Pesole
Hands-on session
15:00-18:30Training on the most common programs to estimate genetic
distances between
homologous sequences (DNADIST, MARKOV, DISTANCES, etc.).
Dan Graur, Ken Wolfe, Edward Holmes, Graziano Pesole
Friday, October 4, 1996
Lectures
9:00-9:40 Impact of molecular data on phylogenetic studies
Dan Graur
9:45-10:30The recruitment of eye lens proteins in vertebrate evolution:
adaptive evolution
at the molecular level
Wilfried de Jong
Tutorials
11:00-11:45Molecular phylogeny: methods for tree reconstruction
Dan Graur
11:45-12:30Heuristic methods of tree searching and statistical tests of
tree reliability
Ken Wolfe
12:30-13:15Estimation of Species/Genes divergence times
Cecilia Lanave
Hands-on session
15:00-18:30Training on the most common programs for tree reconstruction
(DNAML, DNAMLK, PAUP, ..). Relative rate test programs
(CODRATES).
Ken Wolfe, Dan Graur, Cecilia Lanave
Saturday, October 5, 1996
Lectures
9:00 - 9:40 Intraspecific genetic variation for tracing the evolution of
populations
Antonio Torroni
9:45 - 10:30Molecular Evolution: Applications in Epidemiology and Public
Health.
Edward Holmes
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