Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of morphological character data using RevBayes

Location: Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Bristol, UK
Dates: 12/14, 2018
Instructors: Rachel Warnock, Mark Puttick, Joseph O'Reilly, Holly Betts

Description

This short workshop will provide an introduction to Bayesian approaches for the analysis of morphological character matrices and an introduction to the Bayesian phylogenetics software package RevBayes.

Location: The Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, BS8 1RL 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

Software

Before the course starts, please install the following software on your own computer:

RevBayes v1.0.9
Tracer
FigTree
A simple text editor, such as Sublime Text, NotePad++, TextWrangler, BBEdit, vim, or emacs

Papers

We recommend some selected papers for you to read prior to the workshop. These are not required and we will explain all the content throughout the workshop. However, some prior background knowledge will help to successfully work through the material.

Schedule

Date	Time	Topic	Material	Instructors
Friday	09:00-10:00	Lecture: An introduction to Bayesian phylogenetics using morphology		Mark Puttick
Friday	10:10-11:00	Lecture: An introduction to graphical models and Bayesian phylogenetics using RevBayes		Rachel Warnock
Friday	11:10-12:30	Lab: Phylogenetic inference using discrete morphology using RevBayes	Discrete morphology - Tree Inference	Joseph O'Reilly