[MORPHMET] Course Mapping Trait Evolution, June 4-8, Barcelona (Spain)
Dear colleagues, This course might be of interest for some people in morphmet list: “Mapping Trait Evolution”, June 4th-8th, 2018. Instructor: Dr. Jeroen Smaers (Stony Brook University, USA). PROGRAM: Monday. (R packages: ape, Geiger). Morning: Phylogenetic data. - What is the basic structure of phylogenetic data? - How to visualize and manipulate phylogenetic data? Afternoon: Models of evolution. - What are models of evolution? - What are the assumptions of the different models of evolution? - How are models of evolution utilized? Tuesday. (R packages: ape, nlme, caper, evomap). Morning: Phylogenetic regression. - Assumptions, properties, and applications of the phylogenetic regression. Afternoon: Phylogenetic ancova. - Testing for grade shifts using the phylogenetic regression. Wednesday. (R packages: phytools, motmot, geiger, ape, evomap, BayesTraits). Morning: Ancestral estimation. - Using models of evolution to estimate values of ancestral nodes. Afternoon: Analysis of rates of evolution. - Estimation of rates of evolution. - Testing hypothesis about rates of evolution. Thursday. (R packages: bayou, phylolm, surface, OUwie, mvMORPH). Morning: Inferring the structure of a macroevolutionary landscape. - Using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models to map macroevolutionary patterns. Afternoon: Testing the structure of a macroevolutionary landscape. - Applications and assumptions of OU models. - Using OU models to test macroevolutionary hypotheses. Friday. (R packages: geomorph). Morning: Modularity and integration. - What is ‘phylogenetic’ modularity and integration? - Applications and assumptions. Afternoon: Case study. MORE INFO: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/evolution/mapping-trait-evolution/ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Course Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics using (mostly) R, August 13-17, Canada
Dear colleagues, Registration is open for the course “INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING (MOSTLY) R”, August 13th-17th, 2018, Alberta (Canada). Instructors: Dr Paula González (Unidad Ejecutora Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. CONICET-HEC-UNAJ, Argentina) and Dr David Katz (University of Calgary, Canada). This course is intended as an introduction to the major aspects of 2D and 3D landmark-based shape analysis. While we will spend some time on shape theory and mechanical aspects relevant statistical analyses, the goal of doing so will be to develop your intuition for how to—and how not to—design and interpret your geometric morphometrics research. Students will learn the foundations of geometric morphometrics through lectures and daily exercises. The exercises are designed around a mouse skull shape sample from a controlled experiment with longitudinal design, though for most exercises, students are welcome to work with their own data instead. Students lacking a rudimentary understanding of R will be asked to complete a short series of introductory exercises prior to attending the course. Most analyses will be done in R, although we will also use Meshlab for landmarking 3D models, and tpsDig for 2D landmarking. More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/geometric-morphometrics/introduction-geometric-morphometrics-using-mostly-r Organized by Transmitting Science and University of Calgary. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Course Studying Evolution with GM, September 10th-14th, Crete.
Dear colleagues, Registration is open for the course “STUDYNG EVOLUTION WITH GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS – 3rd edition” Instructor: Dr. Chris Klingenberg (Manchester University, UK). Place: Heraklion, Crete (Greece). Dates: September 10th – 14th PROGRAM: Monday, September 10th, 2018. 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. Tuesday, September 11th, 2018. A closer look at some properties of morphometric data. § Measurement error and outliers. § Symmetry and asymmetry. § Regression: Allometry and size correction. Wednesday, September 12th, 2018. Morphological integration and modularity. § Partial least squares. § Modularity. § Inferring developmental integration from fluctuating asymmetry. Thursday, September 13th, 2018. Phylogeny and comparative methods. § Mapping shape data onto phylogenies. § Comparative methods. § Advanced topics: Analyses across levels, evolutionary size correction. Friday, September 14th, 2018. Special topics and combined analyses. § Complex symmetries. § Comparing covariance matrices (matrix correlation, ordination methods, etc.). § Putting things together: Multi-level analyses. Morning sessions will be used for lectures and demonstrations of analyses (participants will conduct their own analyses with software and data provided to them). Afternoon sessions will be devoted to work in small groups. The first four afternoons will be used for analysis of the participants’ data as small group projects. During the last afternoon, participants will give informal presentations of the group work. There would be an evaluation at the end of the course, based on the group work presentations. More information and registrations: http://bit.ly/transmitting-science-sctudying-evolution-with-gm Best wishes 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Course Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics using (mostly) R, July 8-12, Canada
Dear Colleagues, Registration is open for the course Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics using (mostly) R. Instructors: Dr. Paula González (CONICET-HEC-UNAJ, Argentina) and Dr. David Katz (University of Calgary, Canada). Dates and place: July 8th-12th, 2019, Alberta (Canada). Course overview: This course is intended as an introduction to the major aspects of 2D and 3D landmark-based shape analysis. While we will spend some time on shape theory and mechanical aspects relevant statistical analyses, the goal of doing so will be to develop your intuition for how to—and how not to—design and interpret your geometric morphometrics research. Students will learn the foundations of geometric morphometrics through lectures and daily exercises. The exercises are designed around a mouse skull shape sample from a controlled experiment with longitudinal design, though for most exercises, students are welcome to work with their own data instead. Students lacking a rudimentary understanding of R will be asked to complete a short series of introductory exercises prior to attending the course. Most analyses will be done in R, although we will also use Meshlab for landmarking 3D models, and tpsDig for 2D landmarking. More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/geometric-morphometrics/introduction-geometric-morphometrics-using-mostly-r or writing to cour...@transmittingscience.org Places are limited to 20 participants and will be occupied by strict registration order. This course is organized by Transmitting Science and Calgary University. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Transmitting Science 3D Geometric Morphometrics course in Crete
Dear colleagues, The 8th edition of Transmitting science course "3D Geometric Morphometrics" has a few slots available. Dates and Place: January 28th – February 1st, 2019, Crete (Greece) Instructor: Dr Melissa Tallman (Grand Valley State University, USA). Registration and more info: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/geometric-morphometrics/3d-geometric-morphometrics/ PROGRAM: Types of data acquisition: Using a microscribe. Collecting CT scans & Surface Scans. - Demonstration of Stratovan Checkpoint. Brief Review of Fundamentals of Morphometrics: - How to choose landmarks. - Generalized Procrustes Analysis. - Other types of alignment. - Thin plate spline warping. Processing Microscribe data. - Using DVLR to merge two views. - Using resample to resample a line. Using Landmark Editor to collect data on surfaces. - Sliding semi-landmarks (using R geomorph package). - How to do a precision test on 3D data. - Data exploration: PCA analyses: Using Morphologika. Using MorphoJ. Between-group PCAs. PCAs in Procrustes form space. - Visualizing shape change: Using MorphoJ in conjunction with Landmark Editor. Making calculations and visualizing shape changes in PCA morphospace. Calculating PCA scores post hoc. - Data exploration: Regressions. Visualizing change that is associated with size (MorphoJ). Removing change associated from size from your data (MorphoJ). Common allometric trajectories. Comparing vector directions. Extracting linear dimensions from 3D data and using them as covariates. - Data exploration: PLS analyses. Using MorphoJ to mean center (or not). Visualizing shape change in Landmark editor. - Data exploration: Phylogeny. Visualizing shape changes in MorphoJ along a tree. Importing covariates and visualizing shape change associated with taxonomy (using MorphoJ). Creating a phyomorphospace. Correcting for phylogeny in PCA. - Data interpretations: Using mean configurations (PAST) and Procrustes distances. Minimum spanning trees. Variability within a sample (comparing fossil distributions to extant distributions). - Retrodeformation. Please feel free to distribute this information between your colleagues if you consider it appropriate. Best wishes 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Course Mapping Trait Evolution, June 3-7, Barcelona (Spain)
Dear colleagues, This course might be of interest for people in this list: “Mapping Trait Evolution”, June 3rd-7th, 2019. Instructor: Dr. Jeroen Smaers (Stony Brook University, USA) and Carrie Mongle (Stony Brook University, USA). If you are a PhD student you can APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP: https://www.transmittingscience.org/funding/scholarships-application/ PROGRAM: Monday. (R packages: ape, Geiger). Morning: Phylogenetic data. - What is the basic structure of phylogenetic data? - How to visualize and manipulate phylogenetic data? Afternoon: Models of evolution. - What are models of evolution? - What are the assumptions of the different models of evolution? - How are models of evolution utilized? Tuesday. (R packages: ape, nlme, caper, evomap). Morning: Phylogenetic regression. - Assumptions, properties, and applications of the phylogenetic regression. Afternoon: Phylogenetic ancova. - Testing for grade shifts using the phylogenetic regression. Wednesday. (R packages: phytools, motmot, geiger, ape, evomap, BayesTraits). Morning: Ancestral estimation. - Using models of evolution to estimate values of ancestral nodes. Afternoon: Analysis of rates of evolution. - Estimation of rates of evolution. - Testing hypothesis about rates of evolution. Thursday. (R packages: bayou, phylolm, surface, OUwie, mvMORPH). Morning: Inferring the structure of a macroevolutionary landscape. - Using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models to map macroevolutionary patterns. Afternoon: Testing the structure of a macroevolutionary landscape. - Applications and assumptions of OU models. - Using OU models to test macroevolutionary hypotheses. Friday. (R packages: geomorph). Morning: Modularity and integration. - What is ‘phylogenetic’ modularity and integration? - Applications and assumptions. Afternoon: Case study. MORE INFO: http://bit.ly/transmittingscience-mapping-trait-evolution or writing to cour...@transmittingscience.org 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Transmitting Science course Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics, May 27-31, Barcelona, Spain
Dear colleagues, The 11th edition of Transmitting Science course "INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS- 10th edition" has opened registration. INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK) and Dr. Jesús Marugán (UAM, Spain). Dates: May 27th-31st, 2019, Barcelona (Spain) More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/geometric-morphometrics/introduction-geometric-morphometrics/ or writing to cour...@transmittingscience.org This course is entitled to teach the main concepts of shape analysis based on landmark coordinates and its multivariate procedures, and how they can be put into practice across any biological discipline in which the phenotype (form) and its variation are the principal sources of information. This successful course Program: 1. Introduction: Shape, size and biological morphology. 2. Morphometric data: Equipment, landmarks, outlines and surfaces. 3. Visualizing shapes and shape changes. 4. Looking at variation: PCA. 5. Distinguishing groups: CVA and discriminant analysis. 6. Symmetry and asymmetry. 7. Morphometrics in a messy world: outliers and measurement error. 8. Regression and allometry. 9. Covariation between things: PLS. 10. Morphological integration. 11. Modularity. 12. Phylogeny and comparative methods. 13. Putting things together: Combining analyses to solve biological questions. 14. Presentation of group work by participants. Software that will be used during the course: TPS, ImageJ (FIJI) and MorphoJ Please feel free to distribute this information between your colleagues if you consider it appropriate. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any question regarding this course. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Transmitting Science course: Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny, Sep 9-13, Barcelona.
Dear colleagues, Transmitting Science course "Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny" has opened registration. Dates: September 9th-13th, 2019, Barcelona. Instructor: Dr. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Place: Capellades, Barcelona (Spain). Registration and more info: https://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/geometric-morphometrics/geometric-morphometrics-phylogeny/ PROGRAM: 1. Phylogeny, trees and phylogenetic reasoning. 2. Brief review of geometric 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. Comparative methods: independent contrasts. 7. Application in morphometrics: evolutionary allometry and size correction. 8. Practice: comparative methods (MorphoJ). 9. Application of comparative methods: morphological integration. 10. Multi-level analyses of integration: inferring evolutionary mechanisms. 11. Application of comparative methods: partial least squares (ecomorphology, etc.). 12. Practice: comparative methods (cont.). 13. Morphometrics, phylogenies and qualitative characters. 14. Disparity and diversification. 15. Presentations of group work. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
