Dear colleagues, Registration is open for the postgraduate course "Studying Evolution with Geometric Morphometrics - 2nd ed.", taught by Prof Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK). Basic knowledge of geometric morphometrics is required. Dates: April 4th-8th, 2016. PLACE: Centro Científico y Tecnológico Conicet, La Plata, Argentina.
Registration and more info: http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/evolution-and-gm/ PROGRAM: Review of some fundamental methods, introduction to MorphoJ: - Size and shape, Procrustes fit, visualization of shape changes. - Principal component analysis. - Distinguishing groups: Canonical variates and discriminant analysis. A closer look at some properties of morphometric data: - Measurement error and outliers. - Symmetry and asymmetry. - Regression: Allometry and size correction. Morphological integration and modularity: - Partial least squares. - Modularity. - Inferring developmental integration from fluctuating asymmetry. Phylogeny and comparative methods: - Mapping shape data onto phylogenies. - Comparative methods. - Advanced topics: Analyses across levels, evolutionary size correction. Special topics and combined analyses: - Complex symmetries. - Comparing covariance matrices (matrix correlation, ordination methods, etc.). - Putting things together: Multi-level analyses. This course is organized by Transmitting Science and the Instituto de Genética Veterinaria. Please feel free to distribute this information between your colleagues if you consider it appropriate. With best regards Sole Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona). Spain www.icp.cat -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
