Advanced course Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny, September 12-16, Barcelona.

[Soledad De Esteban Trivigno]

Dear colleagues,

The 7th edition of the co urse GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS AND PHYLOGENY
has open registration. Basic kno wledge of Geometric Morphometrics is
required.

GRANTS: Thanks to the donations of former participants, this year
there is a place for free at th e course for PhD students. If you
want to apply please send an e-mail to gr an...@transmittingscience.org including: 1- Full name and country, 2-
Short project (maximum 300 words), 3- Letter of your advisor stating
if you have any grant to develop your PhD. Deadline: March 31st.

INSTRUCTOR: Prof . Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK).

DATES: September 12th - 16th, 2016.

PLACE: Facilities of the Centre of Restaurac ió i Interpretació
Paleontologica, Els Hostalets de Pierola, Barc elona (Spain).

Testimonials of previous editions: http://www.transmit tingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/#Testimonials

PROGRAM,
1. Phylogeny, trees and phylogenetic reasoning.
2. Brief review of geom etric morphometrics (Procrustes fit, PCA,
etc.).
3. Mapping traits onto phylogenies: squared-change parsimony.
4. Practice: making/editing Nexus files, mapping morphometric data
onto the tree (Mesquite, MorphoJ).
5. Phylogenetic signal, morphometric traits and estimating
phylogeny.
6. Co mparative methods: independent contrasts.
7. Application in morphometric s: evolutionary allometry and size
correction.
8. Practice: comparative methods (MorphoJ).
9. Application of comparative methods: morphological integration.
10. Multi-level analyses of integration: inferring evolutio nary
mechanisms.
11. Application of comparative methods: partial least s quares
(ecomorphology, etc.).
12. Practice; comparative methods (cont.). 13. Morphometrics, phylogenies and qualitative characters.
14. Dispa rity and diversification.
15. Presentations of group work.

More in formation:
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/gm-and-phylogeny/ or
writing to cou...@transmittingscience.org

Organized by: Transmitt ing Science, the Institut Catalá de
Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and the Council of Hostalets de
Pierola.

Please feel free to distribute this information between your
colleagues if you consider it appropriate.

With best regards

Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
Scientific Direc tor
Transmitting Science
www.transmittingscience.org