Adelaide Phylogenetics Conference & Workshop

Workshop: 5–10 April 2010, The University of Adelaide
Conference: 12–16 April 2010, Port Elliot, South Australia

The third annual Adelaide Phylogenetics Conference (formerly known as the Mathematical & Evolutionary Biology Conference) will be held on Port Elliot beachfront, South Australia. This meeting follows the successful meetings held in Blanche Cave, Naracoorte in 2008, and Pt Elliot in 2009.

This meeting series aims to bridge the current gap between evolutionary biologists and mathematicians in Australia, and overseas, by providing a relaxed, informal setting (with just. 50 attendees) to encourage the discussion of new results and methods. The conference is designed to allow maximum student/academic interaction, and contains a session on the analysis of datasets during the meeting itself. The emphasis is on the development and application of advanced new analytical methods, and building trans-disciplinary collaborations.

Topics covered at the previous meetings include:

• Phylogenetics and Networks;
• Mathematical methods and Algorithms;
• Macroevolution; Evolutionary rates and dates;
• Genome analysis;
• Bioinformatics;
• Human evolution;
• Disease.

This extremely successful workshop is aimed at graduate students featuring an intensive 4 day hands-on training from 4 international experts, in leading software packages for the analysis of genetic data.

• Dr. Alexi Drummond (BEAST)
• Prof. Peter Lockhart (Phylogenetic methods)
• Christian Anderson (Serial SimCoal),
• Andrew Storfer (Landscape Genetics).

These leading experts provide detailed instruction on the analysis of model and actual datasets, and there is a strong demand for places. Registration to this workshop gains you free entry to the Pt Elliot meeting and participants are strongly encouraged to attend and present.

Enquiries:

• Prof Nigel Bean nigel.bean@adelaide.edu.au