Mathematics and Informatics in Evolution and Phylogeny Conference

9h	Bus from Montpellier centre to Hameau de l'Etoile
10h	Café & croissants
10h50	Bienvenue
11h - 12h15	Information Theory
11h	Beyond 'event horizons' in early evolution Mike Steel, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Slides
11h25	Equivalence of Maximum Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood revisited Mareike Fischer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Slides
11h50	Identifiability of models from parsimony-informative pattern frequencies John Rhodes, University of Kansas, USA. Slides
12h15	Déjeuner
13h45 - 15h25	Models
13h45	Realism and Instrumentalism in theoretical models of molecular evolution David Penny, Massey University, New Zealand. Slides
14h10	Probabilistic models of the evolution of the rate of evolution Stéphane Guindon, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Slides
14h35	Quantifying the Time Irreversibility of the Nucleotide Substitution Process Federico Squartini, Max Planck Institute, Germany. Slides
15h	Estimating the contribution of sequence context to nucleotide substitution rate heterogeneity Helen Lindsay, Australian National University, Australia. Slides
15h25 - 16h	Thé & gateaux
16h - 17h45	Models & Algorithms
16h	Using the best model! Reconstructing the worst tree... Liat Shavit-Grievink, Massey University, New Zealand. Slides
16h10	Awesome Matrices and Markov models in Phylogenetics Steffen Klaere, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Austria. Slides
16h20	A new phylo-HMM paradigm to search for sequences Jean-Baka Domelevo-Entfellner, LIRMM - CNRS, France. Slides
16h30	Modelling heterogeneity in nucleotide sequence evolution Simon Whelan, University of Manchester, UK. Slides
16h55	Sampling trees with a fixed number of leaves Tanja Gernhard, Technische Universität München, Germany. Slides
17h20	Simultaneous estimation of alignments and trees Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, USA. Slides
17h45	A more realistic approach to simulating heterotachy and its effect on phylogenetic accuracy Christoph Mayer, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany. Slides

9h - 10h15	Rearrangements & duplications
9h	Including descendants of whole genome duplication in gene order phylogeny David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada.
9h25	Reconstruction of ancestral chromosomes: methodological frameworks Eric Tannier, LBBE - INRIA, France. Slides
9h50	The complexity of deriving multi-labeled trees from bipartitions Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK. Slides
10h15 - 10h45	Café & croissants
10h45 - 12h25	Bayesian
10h45	New computational methods for efficient phylogenetic MCMC Michael Defoin-Platel, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Slides
11h15	Bayesian estimation of selection pressure on protein coding sequences Aude Grelaud, MIG - INRA, France. Slides
11h35	The dynamics of positive selection on the mammalian tree: A Bayesian inference of selection histories Carolin Kosiol, Cornell University , USA. Slides
12h	Studying historic demographic parameters using an approximate bayesian computation Joao Lopes, University of Reading, UK. Slides
12h25	Déjeuner
13h45 - 14h50	Genetics
13h45	Evolutionary pathways for sex-determining mechanisms based on X-chromosome elimination: The sciarid system Lucas Sanchez, CSIC, Spain. Slides
13h55	Evolutionary process of a tetranucleotide microsatellite locus in Acipenseriforms Eric Rivals, LIRMM - CNRS, France. Slides
14h05	Application of Matlab in population genetics and molecular evolution James Cai, Stanford University, USA. Slides
14h15	Expected time to coalescence and Fst under a skewed offspring distribution among individuals in a population Bjarki Eldon, Harvard University, USA. Slides
14h25	Coalescence: exact calculations of coalescence times for subdivided population Alain Franc, BGC - INRA, France.
14h50 - 15h10	Pause & thé
15h10 - 16h	Networks
15h10	Summarizing Multiple Gene Trees Using Cluster Networks Regula Rupp, University of Tübingen, Germany. Slides
15h35	Level-k phylogenetic networks Leo van Iersel, Techinische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands. Slides
16h	Thé & gateaux, promenades, discussions...

9h - 10h40	Trees & supertrees
9h	Phylogenetic Diversity with Disappearing Features Charles Semple, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Slides
9h25	Encoding phylogenetic trees in terms of weighted quartets Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK. Slides
9h50	Healing source trees to obtain healthy supertrees Céline Scornavacca, LIRMM - CNRS, France. Slides
10h15	Human genetic ancestry: When branches get short Arndt von Haeseler, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Austria.
10h40 - 11h10	Café & croissants
11h10 - 12h25	Viruses
11h10	The computational biology of genetically diverse assemblages Allen Rodrigo, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Slides
11h35	Integrating genetic and epidemiological data to determine transmission pathways of foot-and-mouth disease virus Gaël Thébaud, BGPI - INRA, France. Slides
12h	Applying molecular clocks to date the intraspecific and interspecific diversification of RNA plant virus species Denis Fargette, RPB - IRD, France.
12h25	Déjeuner
13h45 - 15h40	Phylogenetics
13h45	A phylogenetic follow-up study of 4 individuals infected with closely related HIV-1 strains Kristen Chalmet, Ghent University , Belgium. Slides
13h55	Comparison of commonly used methods for combining multiple phylogenetic data sets Anne Kupczok, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Austria. Slides
14h05	Phylogenetic Diversity with Ecological Constraints Beáta Faller, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Slides
14h15	Tools for choosing among alternative network phylogenetic inferences Steven M. Woolley, St. Louis, USA. Slides
14h25	Parallel Adaptations to High Temperatures in the Archean Eon Samuel Blanquart, LIRMM - CNRS, France. Slides
14h50 - 15h10	Pause & thé
15h10 - 16h25	Models & Algorithms
15h10	Is protein sequence evolution constant over time? Nick Goldman, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, UK. Slides
15h35	New Methods for Genealogical Network Inference based on Local Tree Topologies with a Set of SNP Sequences in Populations Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut, USA. Slides
16h	Exact and efficient algorithms for the probability of a marker under incomplete lineage sorting David Bryant, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
16h25	The end! Bus to Montpellier centre.