EVENT : C3BI Training
Main speaker: Olivier Gascuel, from C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Date : 22-10-2018 at 09:00 am Location: Institut Pasteur International Network – HKU Pasteur – Hong Kong
General Information:
This introductory course aims to give the basic theoretical and practical concepts, best practices, and software necessary to start working on molecular phylogenetics and its applications to epidemiology. The course will have theoretical morning sessions followed by small groups practice for a few selected students with their own data. Flyer for the course: CLICK METopics:
- Introduction to phylogeny: General principles for the inference, interpretation of trees, and application to infectious diseases
- Introduction to the math behind the trees and evolutionary models
- Distance and parsimony methods
- Maximum likelihood methods
- Bayesian methods, phylodynamics
- Branch supports, bootstrapping
- How to select the best method and evolutionary model
- Tree dating, reconstructing and using character evolution
- Molecular epidemiology
Teachers:
Chair: Olivier Gascuel, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Anna Zhukova, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Frédéric Lemoine, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Hein Min Tun, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong Julien Guglielmini, C3BI, Institut Pasteur (France) Sebastian Duchene, University of Melbourne (Australia) Tim Vaughan, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) Tommy Lam, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong Veronika Boskova, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)Course dates:
Monday, October 22nd to Saturday, October 27thPre-requisites:
- Basic knowledge on how to use sequence databanks
- Basic knowledge using Blast and multiple alignments software
- Basic knowledge of statistics (tests, distributions, parameter estimation)