Lectures and tutorials will be held in room 46 at T9
Exercises will involve the use of python and phylogeny inference software.
An overview of the topics covered is given below. Chapter numbers correspond to respective chapters in Ziheng Yang's book Molecular Evolution: A Statistical Approach.
| Date | Chapter | Lecture title | |
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| Oct 18, 2022 | Introduction & tree terminology | ||
| Oct 25, 2022 | Models of nucleotide substitution | ||
| Nov 1, 2022 | 3 | Distance-based methods | |
| Nov 8, 2022 | 5 |
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| Nov 15, 2022 | 3 | Tree search | |
| Nov 22, 2022 | 4 | Maximum likelihood | |
| Nov 29, 2022 | 4 | Parameter optimization | |
| Dec 6, 2022 | 5 | Mixture models and model selection | |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Recap | ||
| Jan 3, 2023 | 6 | Bayesian theory | |
| Jan 10, 2023 | 7,8 | Bayesian inference of phylogenies | |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Large-scale phylogeny inference | ||
| Jan 24, 2023 | 10 | Molecular clocks | |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 11 | Neutral and adaptive evolution | |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Q & A | ||
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Feb 14, 2023 |
Project presentation | ||
| Feb 21, 2023 | Project presentation |