Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology
from Brian Foley:
18th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology
University of Florida, Emerging Pathogens Institute
Gainesville, Florida, USA
August 25th – August 30th, 2013
Bioinformatics Methods Applied to Virology and Epidemiology
University of Florida, Emerging Pathogens Institute
Gainesville, Florida, USA
August 25th – August 30th, 2013
Bioinformatics Methods Applied to Virology and Epidemiology
Announcing the organization of the international workshop on Virus
Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME) in 2013, hosted by the
Emerging Pathogens Institute in the warm city of Gainesville and
sponsored by several local partners.
We plan to organize a ‘Phylogenetic Inference’ module that offers the
theoretical background and hands-on experience in phylogenetic analysis
for those who have little or no prior expertise in sequence analysis.
An ‘Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing’ is targeted to participants who are
well familiar with alignments and phylogenetic trees, and would like to
extend their expertise to likelihood and Bayesian inference in
phylogenetics, coalescent and phylogeographic analyses (‘phylodynamics’)
and molecular adaptation. A ‘Large Dataset Analysis’ module will cover
the more complex analysis of full genomes, huge datasets of pathogens
including Next Generation Sequencing data, and combined analyses of
pathogen and host. Practical sessions in these modules will involve
software like, PHYLIP, PAUP*, PHYML, MEGA, PAML or HYPHY, TREE-PUZZLE,
SplitsTree, BEAST, MrBayes Simplot and RDP3.
We recommend participants to buy The Phylogenetic Handbook as a guide during the workshop, and to bring their own data set.
For further information and applications check this website.
Abstract and application deadline is April 30th.
Selections will be made by end of May 2013.
The registration fee of 1000 USD covers attendance, lunches and coffee breaks.
Participation is limited to 25 scientists in each module and is
dependent on a selection procedure based on the submitted abstract and
statement of motivation. A limited number of grants are available for
scientists who experience difficulties to attend because of financial
reasons.
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