DIMACS Workshop on Reticulated Evolution

September 20 - 21, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Mel Janowitz, DIMACS, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Randy Linder, University of Texas, rlinder@mail.utexas.edu

Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico, moret@cs.unm.edu

Workshop Program:

Monday, September 20, 2004

 8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration - CoRE Bldg., 4th Floor

 9:00 -  9:10  Welcoming Remarks 
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

 9:15 - 10:15  Network (Reticulated) Evolution: Biology, Models, and Algorithms
               Randy Linder, University of Texas and Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico

10:15 - 10:45  Break 

10:45 - 11:45  Reconstructing Reticulate Evolution
               Bernard Moret, University of New Mexico

11:50 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:15  Phylogenetic Networks - Visualization Techniques for Incompatible 
               Data and Models of Evolution
               Daniel Huson, Tuebingen University, Germany

 2:20 -  3:00  The Challenge of Measuring Gene Flow Between Diverging Populations
               Jody Hey, Rutgers University

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:10  Estimating pedigrees from genomic sequence data: Issues and ideas
               John Wakeley, Harvard University

 4:15 -  4:55  Representation of a dissimilarity matrix using reticulograms
               Pierre Legendre, Universite de Montreal

 5:30pm        Wine and cheese resecption at DIMACS


Tuesday, September 21, 2004

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:45  Comparison of methods for estimating reticulate evolutionary 
               relationships through computer simulation
               Keith Crandall, Brigham Young University

 9:50 - 10:30  Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks: a Separate-analysis Approach
               Tandy Warnow, The University of Texas at Austin

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:40  Phylogenetic Networks with Constrained and Unconstrained Recombination
               Dan Gusfield, University of California at Davis

11:45 -  1:15  Lunch

 1:15 -  2:00  Detecting Horizontal Gene Transfers Using Discrepancies 
               in Species and Gene Classifications
               Vladimir Makarenkov, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

 2:05 -  2:50  Phylogenetic Networks: Modeling, Reconstructibility, and Accuracy
               Luay K. Nakhleh, Rice University

 2:55 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:10  Probability mapping and bipartiton analysis to study genome histories
               J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva, University of Connecticut 

 4:15 -  4:45  Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Environment
               Jonna Coombs, Rutgers University

 4:45 -  5:00  Closing Remarks

 5:00          Workshop Ends

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