8:00pm:

Meeting with students

Welcome introductions, refreshments

( All staff in attendance)

Monday August 24th

9:00-10:30

Lecture I

Introduction to Gene and Genome Evolution (Dr. James McInerney)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Lecture II

Databases, database searching, multiple sequence alignment (Dr. David Fitzpatrick).

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session I

Databases and data base interrogation (Dr David Fitzpatrick)

3:00-3:15

Coffee

3:15-5:00

Practical session II

Multiple sequence alignment (Dr JamesMcInerney)

5:00 - 5:45

Seminar I

(Dr. Davide Pisani - Origin of vision in vertebrates).

Tuesday August 25th

9:00-10:30

Lecture III

Maximum Parsimony/Distance Matrices (Dr. Davide Pisani)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Lecture IV

(Maximum Likelihood/Bayesian MCMC - Dr. James McInerney)

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session III

PAUP1 (Dr. Davide Pisani)

3:00-3:15

Coffee break

3:15-5:00

Practical session IV

PAUP2 (Dr. James McInerney)

5:00 - 5:45

Seminar II

(Dr. Chris Creevey - Metagenomic Analysis of Environmental Samples)

Wednesday 26th

9:00-10:30

Lecture V

(Codon-based models of evolution - Dr. Mary O'Connell)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Student presentations I

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session V

MrBayes - Bayesian inference (Dr. James McInerney)

3:00-3:15

Coffee break

3:15-5:00

Practical session VI

PAML - Codon Models (Dr. Mary O'Connell)

5:00 - 5:45

Practical session V

PAML - Codon Models (Dr. Mary O'Connell)

Thursday 27th

9:00-10:30

Lecture VI

Integrating functional evolution with genomics (Dr. David Fitzpatrick)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Student presentations II.

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session VII

Integrating functional and evolutionary databases (Dr. Chris Creevey and Dr. David Fitzpatrick)

3:00-3:15

Coffee break

3:15-5:00

Practical session VIII

Integrating functional and evolutionary databases (Dr. Chris Creevey and Dr. David Fitzpatrick)

5:00 - 5:45

Seminar IV

(Dr. Mary O'Connell - Mammalian protein evolution:phylogenetic challenges and functional inferences)

Friday 28th

9:00-10:30

Lecture VII

Developing pipelines for evolutionary genomics (Dr. Chris Creevey)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Student presentations III

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session IX

Computational pipeline assembly I (Dr. Davide Pisani/Dr. Chris Creevey)

3:00-3:15

Coffee break

3:15-5:00

Practical session X

Computational pipeline assembly II (Dr. Davide Pisani/Dr Chris Creevey)

5:00 - 5:45

Seminar V

(Dr. James McInerney - The chimeric origin of the Eukaryotic cell).

Saturday 29th

9:00-10:30

Lecture VIII

Evolution of insect vectors of tropical diseases (Dr. Sandra Uribe Soto)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:30

Student presentations IV

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Practical session XI

Student data analysis (all teachers)

3:00-3:15

Coffee break

3:15-5:00

Practical session XII

Student data analysis (all teachers)

8:00

Course dinner sponsored by Universidad de Antioquoia

Sunday 30th

9:00-10:30

Round table discussion I

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

1045 - 12:30

Round table discussion II

12:30 -1:30

Lunch

Course Ends