Workshop III: Evolutionary Genomics - IPAM

Workshop III: Evolutionary Genomics

Part of the Long Program Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics
November 15 - 18, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz))
The evolution of non-coding functional elements in our genome
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Cecile Ane (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Delimiting species using both genetic and morphology data
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Jonathan Eisen (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Searching for novelty by phylogeny driven approaches to genomics and metagenomics

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Alice McHardy (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Computational methods for learning from (meta)-genomes
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
New methods for taxon identification of metagenomic data
17:00-18:30
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Jian Ma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chromosome assembly using comparative genomic approach
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Takashi Gojobori (National Institute of Genetics)
Dynamic evolution of translation initiation mechanisms in prokaryotes
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
John Archibald (Dalhousie University)
One Plus One Equals One: Tracing Genomic Threads in the Tapestry of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Mike Sanderson (University of Arizona)
Building the tree of life accurately: are genomes enough?
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Robert Wayne (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Evolutionary genomics of wild and domestic canids

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Elizabeth Allman (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Identifying Rooted Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Tree and Clade Probabilities
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Laura Kubatko (Ohio State University)
Estimating Species Trees Under the Coalescent Model Using Site Pattern Frequencies
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore)
Parsimonious Reconciliation of Gene Tree and Species Tree

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Luay Nakhleh (Rice University)
Disentangling Vertical and Horizontal Evolution in Phylogenomic Studies
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Jens Lagergren (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
Probabilistic analysis of rates of gene duplication and transfers among Mollicutes and Cyanobacteria

Friday, November 18, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Mike Steel (University of Canterbury)
'Lassoing' a tree: Phylogenetic theory for sparse patterns of taxon coverage
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Elchanan Mossel (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Reconstructing big phylogenetic mixtures
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Etienne Pardoux (Université d'Aix-Marseille I (Université de Provence))
On the effect of competition on the height and length of the genealogical tree of a population

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Miklos Csuros (University of Montreal)
Counting along phylogenies: ancestral reconstruction of numerical characters
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
David Sankoff (University of Ottawa)
Aspects of the genomic evolution of flowering plants
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