All sessions are in Loeb G70 (basement of Loeb building)

Sunday, May 17, 2026

18:00 - 21:00 MBL Club (100 Water St.) Opening Reception

Monday, May 18, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Course Faculty & Participants Welcome, introductions, and workshop overview
10:30 - 11:00 Bielawski Scientific ethics
11:00 - 12:00   Introduction to phylogenetics
14:00 - 15:30 Zenil-Ferguson Introduction to Likelihood
15:30 - 17:00 Zenil-Ferguson Likelihood in Phylogenetics
19:00 - 20:30 TAs Intro computer lab
20:30 - 22:00 TAs Alignment lab
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Evening social gathering

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

09:00 - 10:30   Phylogenetic Models
10:30 - 12:00   Introduction to Bayesian Inference
14:00 - 15:30   Model selection
15:30 - 17:00   Bayesian Phylogenetics
19:00 - 20:30 TAs IQ-TREE introduction
20:30 - 22:00 TAs IQ-TREE lab IQ-TREE quiz
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Evening social gathering

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Brown Introduction to graphical models and RevBayes
10:30 - 12:00 Brown Gene tree estimation with RevBayes
14:00 - 15:30 Heath Divergence-time estimation
15:30 - 17:00 Heath Divergence-time estimation Lab
17:30 - 19:00 Swope Private Dining Room Panel and Mixer with Logan Science Journalism Program
19:00 - 20:30 Beerli Introduction to The Coalescent
20:30 - 22:00 Beerli Extending the coalescent
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Social

Thursday, May 21, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Kubatko Species Tree Estimation
10:30 - 12:00 Kubatko Species Tree Estimation
14:00 - 15:30 Swofford PAUP*
15:30 - 17:00 Swofford and Kubatko Species Tree Estimation with SVDQuartets
19:00 - 20:30 Solís-Lemus Phylogenetic networks to study reticulate evolution
20:30 - 22:00 Solís-Lemus Network models tutorial
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Social

Friday, May 22, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Beerli Model comparison in biogeography/population genetics using MIGRATE (introduction slides)
10:30 - 12:00 Beerli MIGRATE (Tutorial)
14:00 - 15:30 Moreau Ant Phylogenomics and Evolution
15:30 - 17:00 Moreau Ant Phylogenomics and Evolution
17:00 - 19:00 Free Time  
19:00 - 22:00 MBL Club Course Dinner Party
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Post-dinner social gathering

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Free Day (sleep in, catch up on email, visit Martha’s Vineyard, go whale watching in Hyannis, etc.)

Sunday, May 24, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Bielawski Theories of molecular evolution: Lecture slides
10:30 - 12:00 Bielawski Intro to codon models: Lecture slides
14:00 - 15:30 Chang Adaptive protein evolution: Introduction
15:30 - 17:00 Chang Adaptive protein evolution: Detecting changes in selection
19:00 - 20:30 Smith Machine learning and molecular evolution
20:30 - 22:00 Smith Machine learning and molecular evolution
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Social

Monday, May 25, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Bielawski PAML lab, lab slides
10:30 - 12:00 Bielawski Additional lab resources, optional advanced lab
14:00 - 15:30 Gill Phylodynamics of Infectious Disease
15:30 - 17:00 Gill Phylodynamics of Infectious Disease
19:00 - 20:30 Edwards Multilocus phylogeography and phylogenetics
20:30 - 22:00 Edwards Pangenomes and evolution
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Social

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Eme Deep phylogenomics
10:30 - 12:00 Eme Deep phylogenomics
14:00 - 15:30 McTavish Phylogenomics slides, Tree updating lab
15:30 - 17:00 McTavish Phylogenomics slides, Tree updating lab
19:00 - 20:30 Knowles Evolutionary applications of genomic data
20:30 - 22:00 Knowles Evolutionary applications of genomic data (cont.)
22:00 - 23:59 Loeb Quad Almost-the-end party

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

09:00 - 10:30 Bielawski Scientific ethics panel discussion. (Slides are for reference: Ethics Intro and Values, diversity & ethics)
10:30 - 12:00 Open lab