Seminars
| Systematic Biology
Discussion Seminar (ENT 426/ PLBIO 414) Spring 2002 Organizer: Sydney Cameron |
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| Jan. 18 | Organizational meeting |
| I. Estimating Lineage Divergence Times | |
| Jan. 23 | Preliminary overview. J. Whitfield |
| Jan. 30 | Original ideas and early calculation attempts. J. Zahniser |
| Feb. 6 | Underpinnings: Modeling rate variation across sites and lineages. D. Takiya |
| Feb. 13 | Does the molecular clock keep time? Arguments pro and con. L. Anderson |
| Feb. 27 | Some interesting applications and attendant methods. I. Quartets. A. Valerio |
| Mar. 6 | The Quartets method/ computer program (QDATE). D. Takiya |
| Mar. 13 | Some interesting applications and attendant methods. II. Bayesian. W.Y. Choi |
| Mar. 20 | SPRING BREAK |
| II. Phylogeographic Analyses | |
| Apr. 3 | Preliminary overview |
| Apr. 10 | Application and theory: Leaf beetle population divergence. A. Valerio |
| Apr. 17 | Computer programs: COLLAPSE, PARSPROB, TCS ALPHA, GEODIS. W.Y. Choi and N. Tzovolos |
| Apr. 24 | Interspecific gene genealogies and reticulate trees: Network methods. L. Anderson and J. Zahniser |
| May 1 | Tropical phylogeography and biodiversity. A. Wallner, N. Tzovolos, and Mah |
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Updated 03/27/02