Course Using Geiger, Phytools, and other Computational Tools to Study Macroevolution on Phylogenies, 16-19 July, Greece.

[Soledad De Esteban Trivigno]

Dear colleagues,< /p>

Registration is open for Transmitting Science course: R 20;USING
GEIGER, PHYTOOLS, AND OTHER COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO STUDY MACROEVOL UTION ON PHYLOGENIES"

Dates and place: July 16th-19th, 2019, Cr ete (Greece).

Instructors: Dr Liam Revell (University of Massachusett s Boston,
USA) and Dr Luke Harmon (University of Idaho, USA).

PROGRAM
Monday

- Introduction to phylogenies and the comparative metho d. [Lecture]

- Introduction the basics of the R statistical comp uting
environment. [Exercise]

- Introduction to reading, writing , manipulating, and visualizing
phylogenies and comparative data in R. ;[Exercise]

- Models of phenotypic trait evolution on trees: Brownian motion. [Lecture]

- Simulating Brownian motion on trees using R . [Exercise]

- Introduction to the phylogenetic comparative meth od: Phylogenetic
independent contrasts. [Lecture]

- Phylogenetic independent contrasts and exploring the properties of
contrasts regression using simulation in R. [Exercise]

- Phylogenetic generalized le ast squares regression and phylogenetic
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Tuesday

- Multivariate statistical methods with phylogeni es: Phylogenetic
principal components analysis, canonical correlation analy sis, and
other approaches. [Lecture]

- Phylogenetic PCA and phyl ogenetic CCA in R. [Exercise]

- Continuous character models of t rait evolution on
phylogenies. [Lecture]

- Fitting continuous ch aracter models to univariate trait data in
R. [Exercise]

- Ancestral state reconstruction I: Continuous characters. [Lecture]

- Reconstructing ancestral states for continuous traits on phylog enies using R. [Exercise]

Wednesday

- Ancestral state reco nstruction II: Discrete characters. [Lecture]

- Reconstructing a ncestral states for discrete traits on phylogenies
using R. [Exercise]
- Exploring the limitations of ancestral state reconstruction for co ntinuous and discrete characters on phylogenies using R. [Exercise]

- Testing for the influence of one discrete character on a second
using Pagel's (1994) method. [Lecture]

- Exploring the promise and limitations of the Pagel (1994) method
using R. [Exercise]

- Analysing discrete character coevolution, and the evolution of
discrete an d continuous characters using the threshold
model. [Lecture]

Thu rsday

- Fitting models of discrete and continuous character evolution on
trees using the threshold model. [Exercise]

- Multi-rate, mu lti-regime, and multivariate models of character
evolution on phylogenies.& #160;[Lecture]

- Fitting multi-regime and multivariate models for con tinuous
character evolution in - [Exercise]

- Visualizing trees and phylogenetic comparative data. [Lecture]

- Plotting phylogen ies and comparative data using R. [Exercise]

- Wrap-up and optio nal additional exercise or lecture.

More information and registration [https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/evolution/using-geiger-ph
ytoo ls-other-computational-tools-study-macroevolution-phylogenies/](https:
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-comp utational-tools-study-macroevolution-phylogenies/)

With best regards< /p>

Sole

Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno,PhD.

Scientific Dir ector

Transmitting Science

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