Dear colleagues,
Transmitting Science is offering a new edition of the course Mapping
Trait Evolution - 5th edition. This course will be held live online
(synchronous). Max 18 participants.
Dates: July 4th-8th, 2022, from 14:00 to 18:00 (Madrid time zone)
Instructor: Jeroen B. Smaers (Stony Brook University, United States of
America)
COURSE OVERVIEW
The course provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art
methods in mapping phenotypic trait evolution and will provide
participants with a springboard to using these methods to answering
their own research questions.
We focus on analyses that use a phylogenetic tree and observed trait
information from tip taxa (extant and/or extinct) to describe how traits
have changed along the branches of a phylogeny. The course covers
methods that estimate and test patterns related to changes in mean,
covariation, and rate. Applications for continuous and categorical, and
univariate and multivariate research designs are discussed.
At the end of this course, participants will have developed an
understanding of:
(1) Brownian motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models of evolution.
(2) How these models can be applied to estimate and test patterns of
trait evolution.
(3) What the advantages and disadvantages are of different
models/methods.
(4) How to recognize which model/method is most appropriate given a
particular dataset and research question.
We provide several data sets that will be used to exemplify the
application of these methods. We do, however, encourage participants to
work with their own data so as to get direct experience with analysing
precisely what they expect to analyse.
Methods from the following R packages will be discussed: ape, geiger,
phytools, evomap, l1ou, bayou, surface, OUwie, mvMORPH, geomorph (this
list may change as new packages become available).
Important note: Please bear in mind that this course is not about
reconstructing (building) phylogenetic trees, the methods we cover in
this course assume that a phylogeny is known.
You can find more information here:
https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/mapping-trait-evolution/
or writing [log in to unmask]
Best regards
Juanvi
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Juan Vicente Bertó Mengual
Administration
Transmitting Science
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