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Lecture Schedule 2016
Week 1 (February 3): Introduction to evolutionary theory and population genetics. Models of growth, selection and mutation
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercise
Week 2 (February 10): Neutral mutations and genetic drift. Tree reconstruction by parsimony
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercise
Week 3+4 (February 17+24): Mini project 1
Building a tree from scratch: What are the closest relatives of whales?
The mini project should be submitted and assessed via the peergrade.io interface.
Week 5 (March 2): Consensus trees. Distance matrix methods
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercises
Week 6 (March 9): Models of sequence evolution. Likelihood methods
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercises
Week 7+8 (March 16 + 30): Mini project 2
Week 9 (April 6): Bayesian inference of phylogeny
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercise
Week 10 (April 13): Testing hypotheses in a phylogenetic context
- Online lectures
- Course material
- Computer exercise