There is a course being held this summer at NESCent that we think some subscribers to r-sig-phylo might be interested in:
Title: Paleobiological and phylogenetic approaches to macroevolution Dates: July 22-29, 2014 Application review begins: May 1, 2014 Website: academy.nescent.org Where: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1n2100AMtaPiIfZsHiwu18kSBuiEolFiSm41DovBLTrc/viewform Instructors: * Roger Benson: Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford * Dan Rabosky: Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan * Samantha Hopkins: Clark Honors College and the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon * Gene Hunt: Dept. of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution * Samantha Price: Dept. Evolution & Ecology, University of California Davis * Lars Schmitz: Keck Science Department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges * Graham Slater: Dept. of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution As part of the NESCent Academy, we are pleased to open applications for 'Paleobiological and phylogenetic approaches to macroevolution'. This course will teach participants to use fossil and phylogenetic data to analyze macroevolutionary patterns using traditional paleobiological stratigraphic methods, phylogenetic comparative methods and combined fossil and tree approaches. By the end of the course participants will be able to use online paleobiological databases to download fossil occurrence data and estimate speciation and extinction rates while controlling for sampling bia; will understand the basics of building phylogenies of fossil and extant species and use such phylogenies to estimate speciation and extinction rates; and finally, will understand how to use models of evolution to calculate phenotypic disparity using stratigraphic and phylogenetic approaches as well as estimate ancestral states and the tempo and mode of trait evolution. This cross-disciplinary course i! s designed to train a new generation of researchers capable of implementing both fossil and tree-methods, paving the way towards a new synthetic approach to study macroevolution. Areas to be covered include: * introduction to paleobiological data and the use of online paleobiological databases * introduction to phylogenetic data * stratigraphic and phylogenetic approaches to analyzing lineage diversification * estimating disparity using fossils and phylogenies * analyzing patterns of trait evolution using fossils and phylogenies More info: https://academy.nescent.org/wiki/Paleobiological_and_phylogenetic_approaches_to_macroevolution Questions? Email acad...@nescent.org _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
