Course Schedule

NOTE: The 2027 workshop will take place from May 22nd to June 1st but the day to day schedule is still subject to change.

All lectures and labs will take place in Loeb G70 unless otherwise noted. Please ensure you have your materials downloaded ahead of time.

5/22/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
18:00 – 21:00 Opening reception Meigs Room (Swope Center) -

5/23/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 Welcome and course overview Loeb G70 Course Faculty & Participants
10:30 – 11:30 Introduction to phylogenetics lecture Loeb G70 Tracy Heath
11:30 – 12:00 Scientific ethics lecture Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
14:00 – 15:30 Introduction to likelihood lecture Loeb G70 Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
15:30 – 17:00 Likelihood in phylogenetics lecture Loeb G70 Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
19:00 – 20:30 Computer introduction lab Loeb G70 TAs
20:30 – 22:00 Sequence alignment lab Loeb G70 TA
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/24/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 Phylogenetic models lecture Loeb G70 Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
10:30 – 12:00 Introduction to Bayesian inference lecture Loeb G70 Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
14:00 – 15:30 Model selection lecture Loeb G70 Jeremy Brown
15:30 – 17:00 Bayesian phylogenetics lecture Loeb G70 Claudia Solís-Lemus
19:00 – 20:30 Introduction to IQ-TREE lecture Loeb G70 TAs
20:30 – 22:00 IQ-TREE lab Loeb G70 TAs
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/25/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 RevBayes graphical models lecture Loeb G70 Jeremy Brown
10:30 – 12:00 RevBayes gene trees lab Loeb G70 Jeremy Brown
14:00 – 15:30 Divergence time estimation lecture Loeb G70 Tracy Heath
15:30 – 17:00 Divergence time estimation lab Loeb G70 Tracy Heath
19:00 – 20:30 Introduction to the coalescent lecture Loeb G70 Peter Beerli
20:30 – 22:00 Extending the coalescent lecture Loeb G70 Peter Beerli
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/26/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 12:00 Species tree estimation lecture Loeb G70 Laura Kubatko
14:00 – 15:30 PAUP* lab Loeb G70 David Swofford
15:30 – 17:00 Species tree estimation with SVDQuartets lab Loeb G70 Laura Kubatko
19:00 – 20:30 Reticulate evolution and phylogenetic networks lecture Loeb G70 Claudia Solís-Lemus
20:30 – 22:00 Phylogenetic network models lab Loeb G70 Claudia Solís-Lemus
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/27/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 Migrate and Bayes factors lecture Loeb G70 Peter Beerli
10:30 – 12:00 Migrate lab Loeb G70 Peter Beerli
9:00 – 10:30 Theories of molecular evolution lecture Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
10:30 – 12:00 Introduction to codon models lecture Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
19:00 – 22:00 Course dinner Meigs Room (Swope Center) -
22:00 – 23:30 Post-dinner social MBL Club -

5/28/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
0:00 – 0:00 Free day Martha's Vineyard -

5/29/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 Adaptive protein evolution I lecture Loeb G70 Belinda Chang
10:30 – 12:00 Adaptive protein evolution II lecture Loeb G70 Belinda Chang
14:00 – 15:30 Machine learning in molecular evolution lecture Loeb G70 Megan Smith
15:30 – 17:00 Machine learning lab Loeb G70 Megan Smith
19:00 – 20:30 Phylogeography lecture Loeb G70 Scott Edwards
20:30 – 22:00 Pangenomes and comparative genomics lecture Loeb G70 Scott Edwards
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/30/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 PAML lab Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
10:30 – 12:00 PAML advanced resources lab Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
14:00 – 15:30 Phylodynamics I lecture Loeb G70 Mandev Gill
15:30 – 17:00 Phylodynamics II lecture Loeb G70 Mandev Gill
19:00 – 22:00 To be determined Loeb G70 -
22:00 – 23:30 Evening social MBL Club -

5/31/2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 12:00 Deep phylogenomics lecture Loeb G70 Laura Eme
14:00 – 15:00 Phylogenomics lecture Loeb G70 Emily Jane McTavish
15:00 – 15:30 Tree updating lab Loeb G70 Emily Jane McTavish
15:30 – 17:00 Open Tree of Life lecture Loeb G70 Emily Jane McTavish
15:30 – 17:00 Tree comparison lab Loeb G70 Emily Jane McTavish
19:00 – 22:00 Evolutionary applications of genomic data lecture Loeb G70 Lacey Knowles
22:00 – 23:30 End of course party MBL Club -

Wednesday, January 06, 2027

Time Event Location Presenter
9:00 – 10:30 Ethics panel discussion lecture Loeb G70 Joseph Bielawski
10:30 – 12:00 Open Lab Loeb G70 -