MAGPIE PhylogeogRaphy Workshop (with BEAST 2)


This in-person workshop is offered and hosted by MAGPIE in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University.

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Day 1

0930 - 1030: [lecture] introduction to workshop and phylogenetic trees

1030 - 1130: R demos (Intro to trees in R and Simulating nucleotide substitution models)

1130 - 1230: [lecture] introduction to ancestral character estimation (ace in R)

1230 - 1330: lunch (bring your own!)

1330 - 1430: R demo: ancestral character estimation in R

1430 - 1530: [live coding session] Introduction to stochastic character mapping – simulating event times

1530 - 1630: R demos (simulating stochastic character mapping; fitting models with stochastic character mapping)

Day 2

0930 - 1030: [lecture] Review of ancestral character estimation and stochastic character mapping

1030 - 1130: [live coding session] Birth death models

1130 - 1230: [lecture] Intro to state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models

1230 - 1330: lunch

1330 - 1430: [mix of live coding and demo session] simulating state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models

1430 - 1530: [mix of live coding and demo session] fitting state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models

1530 - 1600: [live coding and demo session] ancestral state reconstruction with SSE models

1600 - 1630: End of day review

Day 3

0930 - 1030: [lecture] multi-type birth death (MTBD) models

1030 - 1130: [live coding session] setting up a MTBD BEAST2 run

1130 - 1230: [live coding session] setting up a BEAST2 run on a remote server

1230 - 1330: lunch

1330 - 1430: Demo session: analyzing BEAST2 output (premade in the oven)

1430 - 1530: [lecture] structured coalescent models

1530 - 1600: [live coding session] setting up a structured coalescent BEAST2 run

1600 - 1630: Recap of day

Day 4

0930 - 1030: [live demo session] Examine BEAST2 server run

1030 - 1130: [lecture] Bayesian stochastic search variable selection

1130 - 1230: [live demo session] setting up BSSVS in BEAST2

1230 - 1330: lunch

1330 - 1430: [lecture] SAASI

1430 - 1530: [live demo sesssion] comparing discrete trait analysis and phylodynamics

1530 - 1630: Recap, conclusions and closing


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