IHP JUSSIEU IMPG CNRS


Institut Henri Poincaré
Centre Emile Borel
June 16-19, 2003
IHP


Workshop


Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny



A phylogenetic tree.



Oganizers:

MONDAY, June 16


10h-10h45 : Accueil - Café

10h45-11h : Bienvenue

11h-12h15
Walter FITCH, University of California at Irvine, USA.
"Phylogenetics, whence and whither"

12h15-14h15 : Déjeuner

14h15-15h30
Anne BERGERON, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada.
"Similarity vs. Distance in Whole Genome Comparison" (Abstract)


15h30-16h : Thé

16h-17h15
David BRYANT, Mc Gill University, Montréal, Canada.
"Supertree" (Slides)



TUESDAY, June 17


9h15-10h30
Nicolas GALTIER, CNRS-Université Montpellier II, France.
"The statistical approach to molecular phylogeny: improved models" (Abstract, Slides)

10h30-11h : Café

11h-12h15
Ziheng YANG, University College London, UK.
"Estimation of species divergence dates from molecular sequence data" (Abstract, Slides)

12h15-14h15 : Déjeuner

14h15-15h30
Susan HOLMES, Stanford University, USA.
"Confidence regions for phylogenetic trees" (Slides)

15h30-16h : Thé

16h-17h15
Mark PAGEL, University of Reading, UK.
"A model of pattern-heterogeneity for inferring phylogenetic trees and investigating sequence evolution" (Abstract, Slides)

17h15-18h30 : Posters of the workshop attendees

18h30-20h30 : Apéritif



WEDNESDAY, June 18


9h15-10h30
David SANKOFF, Université de Montréal, Canada.
"Rearrangements at the sequence, chromosome, and genome levels"

10h30-11h : Café

11h-12h15
Li-San WANG, Austin University, USA.
"Markovian models for genome rearrangements" (Slides)

12h15-14h15 : Déjeuner

14h15-15h30
Nadia EL-MABROUK, Université de Montréal.
"Algorithms for the reconstruction of doubled genomes" (Abstract, Slides)

15h30-16h : Thé

16h-17h15
Bernard MORET, University of New Mexico, USA.
"Phylogenetic reconstruction based on gene-rearrangement data" (Slides)



THURSDAY, June 19


9h15-10h30
Mike HENDY, Massey University, New-Zealand.
"Hadamard conjugation - an analytic tool for phylogenetics" (Abstract, Slides)

10h30-11h : Café

11h-12h15
Richard DESPER, NCBI, USA.
"Distance methods for phylogeny estimation" (Abstract, Slides)

12h15-14h15 : Déjeuner

14h15-15h30
Vincent MOULTON, The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University .
"Exploring molecular evolution using phylogenetic networks " (Abstract)

15h30-16h : Thé

16h-17h15
Mike STEEL, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand.
"Information-theoretic limits for molecular evolution, and how to peel phylogenetic oranges" (Abstract)