- First Meeting: The DIMACS Symposium on Phylogenetics and Rapidly Evolving Pathogens
- Date: September 7 - 8, 2004
Location: Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Information on the International Conference on Bioinformatics 2004 can be found at: www.incob.org.
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
9:00 - 9:40 Phylogenetic networks and biodiversity
Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
9:45 - 10:25 Viruses, clocks, and cospeciation
Roderic Page, University of Glasgow
11:00 - 11:40 Recombination, 3D network structure, multiple
transmission, and subpopulation frequency shifts in
a mother-to-child transmission case.
Thomas Leitner, Los Alamos National Laboratories
11:45 - 12:25 Resolving the intra-host evolution of rapidly evolving
pathogens: common patterns and shared indel information
under a Bayesian framework
Marc Suchard, University of California, San Diego
2:00 - 2:40 Modeling virus evolution and population dynamics
Alexei Drummond, University of Oxford
2:45 - 3:25 Making evolutionary inferences when there is dependent
change among sequence positions, with emphasis on protein
tertiary structure and viral antigenicity.
Jeff Thorne, North Carolina State University
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
9:00 - 9:40 Imperfect molecular clocks
Bruce Rannala, University of Alberta
9:45 - 10:25 Measurably evolving memes: new models and inference
tools for meme-trait data
Geoff Nicholls, University of Auckland
11:00 - 11:20 Phylogeny and alignment
Ben Redelings, University of California, San Diego
11:20 - 1140 Measurably evolving populations and the structured coalescent
Gregory Ewing, University of Auckland
11:45 - 12:25 Measurably evolving populations: where to next?
Allen Rodrigo, University of Auckland
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