DIMACS Workshop on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Pathogens

June 21 - 22, 2006
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Allen Rodrigo, University of Auckland, a.rodrigo@auckland.ac.nz
Mike Steel, University of Canterbury, M.Steel@math.canterbury.ac.nz
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.

DIMACS Tutorial on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Pathogens, June 19 - 20, 2006.

DIMACS Working Group on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Diseases II, June 23, 2006.

DIMACS Working Group on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Diseases I, September 7 - 8, 2004.

Workshop Program:

 Wednesday, June 21, 2006
 
 8:15 -  8:45 Breakfast and Registration

 8:45 -  9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
              Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director 

 9:00 - 10:00 New tools for molecular epidemiology and HIV 
              classification at the HIV database
              Thomas Leitner, Los Alamos		

10:00 - 10:30 Intrahost sequence diversity dynamics of HIV virus population
              Ha Youn Lee, Los Alamos	

10:30 - 11:00 Break
	
11:00 - 12:00 Linking dynamic and evolutionary models of persistent infection
              John Kelly, The University of Chicago		

12:00 -  1:30 Lunch
	
 1:30 -  2:30 Phylogenetic mapping for recombination hot-spots via a
              spatially smoothed change-point process 
              Marc Suchard, UCLA	

 2:30 -  3:00 Characterizing changes the rate of substitution in influenza A and dengue 
              John O'Brien, UCLA

 3:00 -  3:30 Break
	
 3:30 -  4:30 Inferring changes in evolutionary processes with 
              measurably evolving populations
              Allen Rodrigo, University of Auckland 

 4:30 -  5:30 Inferring phylogeography and population history 
              from viral sequences
              Alexei Drummond, University of Auckland

 5:30         Poster Session & Refreshments	

Thursday, June 22, 2006
 
 8:15 -  8:45 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:00 The evolution of infectious diseases: larger datasets 
              require better methods
              Keith Crandall, Brigham Young University

10:00 - 10:30 Evolution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: An Analysis of Recombination
              and Selection at the Amino Acid Level
              Nicole Lewis-Rogers, Brigham Young University
	
10:30 - 11:00 Break
	
11:00 - 12:00 Evolutionary dependence among sequence sites in viruses
              Jeff Thorne, North Carolina State University

12:00 - 12:30 A MCMC-EM algorithm for statistical analysis of DNA sequence
              evolution with neighbour-dependent substitution rates
              Asger Hobolth, North Carolina State University

12:30 -  2:00 Lunch
	
 2:00 -  3:00 Inferring Speciation Times Under an Episodic Molecular Clock
              Bruce Rannala, UC Davis 

 3:00 -  3:30 Inferring complex DNA substitution processes on phylogenies 
              using uniformization and data augmentation
              Ligia Matieu, UC Davis 
	
 3:30 -  4:00 Break
	
 4:00 -  5:00 Novel uses of discrete mathematics in molecular phylogenetics
              Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
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