Analysing Macroevolutionary Processes using RevBayes

Location: Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Dates: 12/11, 2018 to 12/13, 2018
Instructors: Sebastian Höhna, Rachel Warnock, Fabien Condamine, Thomas Couvreur

Description

This intensive short course will introduce students to the use of RevBayes for macroevolutionary analysis. The course will be three full days in length and will take place at the Université de Montpellier, France from the 11 to the 13 of December, 2018.

Venue

Université de Montpellier

Software

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

RevBayes v1.0.10
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FigTree
A simple text editor, such as NotePad++, SublimeText, TextWrangler or BBEdit

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
Tuesday	09:00-09:30	Welcome to the Workshop		Thomas Couvreur, Fabien Condamine
Tuesday	09:30-10:15	RevBayes Introduction	RevBayes Intro.	Sebastian Höhna
Tuesday	10:15-10:30	Coffee break
Tuesday	10:30-11:00	Substitution Models in Phylogenetics	Bayesian Statistics.	Sebastian Höhna
Tuesday	11:00-12:00	Substitution Models in Phylogenetics	Substitution Models in Phylogenetics	Sebastian Höhna
Tuesday	12:00-13:00	Lunch break
Tuesday	13:00-15:00	Practical on inferring phylogenies (Part I)	Nucleotide substitution models	Sebastian Höhna
Tuesday	15:00-15:15	Coffee break
Tuesday	15:15-17:30	Practical on inferring phylogenies (Part II)	Nucleotide substitution models	Sebastian Höhna
Wednesday	09:00-09:30	Recap MCMC and Substitution Models	Substitution Models in Phylogenetics	Sebastian Höhna
Wednesday	09:30-10:15	Introduction to divergence time estimation	Dating trees	Rachel Warnock
Wednesday	10:15-10:30	Coffee break
Wednesday	10:30-12:00	Node dating		Rachel Warnock
Wednesday	12:00-13:00	Lunch break
Wednesday	13:00-15:00	The fossilized birth-death process		Rachel Warnock
Wednesday	15:00-15:15	Coffee break
Wednesday	15:15-17:30	Total-evidence dating		Rachel Warnock
Thursday	09:00-09:30	Recap		Rachel Warnock
Thursday	09:30-10:15	Diversification rate estimation (Part I)	Simple Diversification Rate Estimation	Sebastian Höhna
Thursday	10:15-10:30	Coffee break
Thursday	10:30-12:00	Diversification rate estimation (Part II)	Episodic Diversification Rate Estimation	Sebastian Höhna
Thursday	12:00-13:00	Lunch break
Thursday	13:00-15:00	Diversification rate estimation (Part III)	Branch-Specific Diversification Rate Estimation	Sebastian Höhna
Thursday	15:00-15:15	Coffee break
Thursday	15:15-17:30	Diversification rate estimation (Part IV)	Background on state-dependent diversification rate estimation State-dependent diversification with BiSSE and MuSSE	Sebastian Höhna