Paleonet: Reminder: Taming the BEAST Phylogenetics Workshop June 2020 Switzerland

[Rachel Warnock]

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder that the following course might be of interest to some
of you. The deadline for registration is March 1st 2020.

Registration is now open for the June 2020 edition of our summer school,
"Taming the BEAST". Phylogenetics and phylodynamics are central topics in
modern biology and paleobiology. Phylogenetic inferences reconstruct the
evolutionary relationships between organisms, whereas phylodynamic
inferences reveal the dynamics that lead to the observed relationships.
These two fields have many practical applications in disciplines such as
epidemiology, developmental biology, paleontology, ecology and even
linguistics. However, phylogenetics and phylodynamics are complex and
fast-evolving fields. As such, inference tools are not easily accessible to
researchers who are not from a computational background.

Taming the BEAST is a summer school focusing on the BEAST 2 software and
consisting of a mix of invited talks, lectures and hands-on tutorials by
leading and renowned experts in the field (including several of the core
developers of BEAST 2). The aim of this summer school is to equip
participants with the skills necessary to confidently perform their own
phylogenetic and phylodynamic inferences in Bayesian settings, while
providing them with a firm grasp of the theory behind those inferences.
Participants are also highly encouraged to bring their own datasets along
and to engage with the organisers and speakers to address any problems
specific to their own datasets/analyses.

We welcome applications from graduate students and early-career scientists
in the life sciences. Preference will be given to applicants who are not
from a computational background and applicants who have already
collected/assembled a dataset that they need to analyze.

Invited speakers:
Alexei Drummond (University of Auckland)
Tanja Stadler (ETH Zurich)
Remco Bouckaert (University of Auckland)
Denise Kuehnert (Max Planck Institute)

Dates: May 31 to June 5, 2020 (Deadline for registration is March 1).

Place: Oberägeri, Switzerland

Registration Fee: 900 CHF (Registration fee includes accommodation and
meals).

For more information please visit the summer school website:
https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/cevo/taming-the-beast/overview-2020.html

For information on previous workshop programs, tutorials etc. please visit
https://taming-the-beast.org.

We hope to see you there,
the Taming the BEAST organising team

-- 
Rachel.Warnock at gmail.com
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