Potentially an interesting course for PhD students, see below

Dear all,

Registration is now open for LUOVA doctoral programme's Critical phylogenetics course. Deadline for registrations is February 5th.

The course gives you a unique opportunity to learn from the best and everything you ever wanted to know about phylogenetics! The course is taught by Pablo Goloboff and Claudia Szumik (Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, Argentina) & Ward Wheeler (American Museum of Natural History, USA). The topics covered will include e.g.:

· analysis of morphological (and other) data

· measures of group support

· comparisons between trees, consensus & supertrees

· parsimony analyses of large and difficult datasets

· areas of endemism in a systematic framework

· spatial analyses of vicariance

· flavors of maximum likelihood analyses & how they relate to "Bayesian" analyses

· DO (dynamic optimization)

· Monte Carlo methods

· paralogy in genomic era

More details in the attachment. To register, please send an email to luova-info@helsinki.fimailto:luova-info@helsinki.fi by 5.2.2017.

Best,

8) Anni

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Anni Tonteri Coordinator Phone: +358 2941 57743

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