Schedule

Course material will be updated here throughout the semester!

Rough Schedule

1. Course introduction and parsimony 16.04
2. Likelihood and substitution models 23.04
3. Bayesian inference and MCMC I 30.04
4. Bayesian inference and MCMC II 07.04
5. Clock models 14.05
6. The fossilised birth-death process 21.05
7. Morphological models 28.05
8. Phylogenetic comparative methods 04.06
9. Diversification rates and intro to projects 11.06

Week 1 materials

schedule	topics
Slides	tree thinking, parsimony
Exercise 1	tree building using parsimony

Homework

• Re-familiarise yourself with how to read a phylogenetic tree and rooting
• Watch A Brief History of Computational Phylogenetics

Week 2 materials

schedule	topics
Slides	maximum likelihood, substitution models
Exercise 2	tree building using maximum likelihood

• Install the software RevBayes
• Watch Phyloenetics primer part 1 by Paul Lewis and answer the associated questions