Hello
The Frontiers in Phylogenetics Program and the Washington Area
Phylogenetics Consortium are
pleased to announce that the Fourth Annual Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium
entitled,
"Genome-Scale Phylogenetics: Analyzing the Data" will be webcast live from the
Warner Brothers
Theatre, National Museum of American History, on Monday, September 15, starting
at 9 am.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Smithsonian-On-UStream-TV
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
9:00 Introductions
Michael Braun,National Museum of Natural History
9:05 Welcome to the Smithsonian
John Kress, Interim Undersecretary for Science,
Smithsonian Institution
9:15 Overview and Logistics
Guillermo OrtÃ, George Washington University
9:25 Phylogenomics and Next-Generation Inferences: the Future of
Phylogenetics in an
Era of Big Data
Lacey Knowles,University of Michigan
10:05 Break
10:30 Deep Metazoan Phylogeny and the Utility of Taxon-Specific
Ortholog Sets
Kevin Kocot,University of Queensland, Brisbane
11:10 A Phylogenomic View on the Early History of Gnasthostome
Evolution: Is One Tree
Enough?
Ingo Ebersberger, Goethe University, Frankfurt
11:50 Lunch Break
1:30 Distinguishing Methodological and Biological Causes of Gene
Tree Discordance in
Phylogenomic Datasets
Derrick Zwickl, University of Arizona
2:10 Filtering and Partitioning Strategies for Phylogenomic
Analyses
David Swofford, Duke University and National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center
2:50 Break
3:10 Genome-scale Phylogenetics in the Presence of Hybridization
and Incomplete
Lineage Sorting
Luay Nakhleh,Rice University
3:50 Joint Inference of Gene Trees and Species Trees at the
Genomic Scale
Bastien Boussau,University Claude Bernard, Lyon
4:30 Round Table Discussion With All Speakers
