Molecular Evolution 27615 - 2016

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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


Week 11 + 12 (April 20 + 27): Mini project 3

Week 13 (May 4): Mini project 3 finished + questions for exam

Old exam sets

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