Introduction to Phylogeny

Phylogenetic analysis is a key area in biology to methodically understand the relationships between species both at the DNA and protein level. This one day course aims to teach the basics of how to analyse your sequence data in this area and prepare it for publication using web based tools.

Introduction - This one-day course will introduce you to the various tools that are available for phylogenetic analysis of data including construction, editing and visualisation of alignments, and tree reconstruction and interpretation. In addition, the practicals will be interspersed with lectures to provide a thorough grounding in the theory underlying these tools. At the end of the course there will also be a chance to bring in your own data and discuss it with the experts.

Please note - the course is free but is only available to molbiol account holders.

The main speakers will be Professor Jotun Hein and Naila Mimouni from the Department of Statistics. Both have extensive experience in the theory and implementation of phylogenetic methods.

Date - This one day course will be held on Thursday, 26th January, 2006, and will start at 9:30 am.

Location - The course will be held in the CAL lab in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (behind the Dunn School of Pathology on South Parks Road - see building 32 on this map).

Course Outline:

JH - Jotun Hein,   NM - Naila Mimouni,   [L] Lecture,   [P] Practical

  morning:

• Introduction (JH) [L]
• Alignments - generating, colouring, publishing and editing (NM) [P]
• Models and reconstruction (JH) [L]
• Parsimony and maximum likelihood methods (JH) [L]

  afternoon:

• Tree reconstruction - parsimony and maximum likelihood using PHYLIP (NM) [P]
• Interpretation and publishing of trees (NM) [P]
• Users bring in own data to discuss with experts (NM/JH) [P]
• Round up and further research (JH) [L]

If you are a molbiol account holder and are interested in attending this course, please email the CBRG at, genmail@molbiol.ox.ac.uk