6th Taming the BEAST workshop in beautiful Squamish, British Columbia (August 12-16 2019)
Alexei Drummond
The 6th Taming the BEAST workshop (https://taming-the-beast.org/) will be held August 12-16th 2019 in beautiful Squamish, British Columbia (for details: https://ttbcanada.wordpress.com/).
The Taming the BEAST is a workshop series focused on Bayesian evolutionary analysis using BEAST2, an open-source software package for Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of molecular sequences. The workshop consists of invited talks, lectures and hands-on tutorials by leading experts in the field. The aim of the workshop is to equip participants with the skills and core knowledge to confidently perform phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses of their own. It is open to graduate students and scientists interested in the analysis of genomic data and molecular evolution.
The latest version of BEAST is version 2.5, and an overview of its capabilities has recently been published in PLoS Computational Biology (Bouckaert et al, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006650).
The closing date for applications for the 6th Taming the BEAST workshop is April 30th 2019. There are THREE scholarships of $1,000 CDN towards the cost of the workshop available for postgraduate students.
If you are interested in an intensive workshop on Bayesian phylogenetics taught by an international team of experts in a beautiful location, please apply by email to ttbc...@cfenet.ubc.ca before the April 30th deadline at the end of the month.
Cheers
Alexei Drummond
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Director of Centre for Computational Evolution
Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ
Professor of Computational Biology
School of Biological Sciences and School of Computer Science
University of Auckland