Next year's meeting will be held at New Zealand's premier beach
resort of Whitianga on
the Coromandel Peninsula. It will be summer in New Zealand, so
expect temperatures in the mid-20s to 30s Celsius. There's heaps to
do, lots of water sports, hiking, with some pretty good wineries and
restaurants around. More information on the Coromandel website.
The meeting will be held at the Aotearoa
Lodge. The Lodge has 10 rooms with twin beds and private
facilities. The rate for the rooms is NZ$95 per night (if all rooms
are booked). This includes GST and a continental breakfast. Email Rennie Leach with the subject
"Phylogenetics Meeting" to book these rooms on a
first-come-first-serve basis.
Other accommodation information can be found at the Whitianga/Mercury
Bay accommodation website. Remember, this is peak season, so
please book quickly. Rates for motels will be relatively
high, unfortunately, but backpacker
lodges and campgrounds
offer cheaper accommodation.
The Aotearoa Lodge is about 1km from town (about 20 mins walk for
someone like me with a dud knee!), but we will arrange transport
from town to the lodge every morning for the days of the
conference.
Getting to Whitianga:
If you're travelling by car, Whitianga is pretty well marked out
on road
maps.
If you're flying into Auckland, then you actually have the option
of flying to Whitianga with Great Barrier
Airlines, which operates flights to and from Auckland
International Airport.
Registration:
Students NZ$50
Non-students NZ$100
The registration includes morning and afternoon teas, lunch
(finger-food), boxed lunch for the free day, and a barbecue. You
have to make your own arrangements for breakfast (if you are not
staying at the lodge) and dinner.
Please register
online and submit your presentation
details as well. Payment will be taken during the conference. If
you have to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible.
Preliminary programme:
Sunday, 17 Feb: 6 - 9pm, Wine and Cheese at the
Aotearoa Lodge
Monday
9:10 -- Welcome
9:15 -- 9:45 Claudine Devauchelle and Alex
Grossmann "Birds, crocodilians and amphibians: what do the
mitochondrial genomes say?"
9:45 -- 10:15 Merel Dalebout and
Scott Baker "Diversity in the depths: sexual selection and
speciation in Mesoplodon beaked whales infered from nuclear and
mitochondrial DNA phylogeny"
10:15 -- 10:45 Scott Baker et
al. "www.DNA-surveillance: molecular taxonomy for species
identification and discovery"
10:45 -- 11:30 Morning
Tea
11:30 -- 12:00 Matthew Phillips "Phylogenetic bias
among morphological data"
12:00 -- 12:30 Daniel Faith
"Further towards an inclusive philosophy: a response to my
critics"
12:30 -- 2:00 Lunch
2:00 -- 2:30 Rissa
Ota on triplet Markov (title TBA)
2:30 -- 3:00 Mike Hendy
"Cubic order heuristics for parsimonious phylogenies"
3:00 -- 3:45 Afternoon Tea
3:45 -- 4:15 David
Penny et al "The shortest possible tree for large datasets"
4:15 -- 4:45 Benny Chor and Sagi Snir "Four taxon ML fork
under molecular clock: analytic solutions"
Tuesday
9:15 -- 9:45 Mike Steel "Generalised directed characters:
overcoming ignorance through prejudice"
9:45 -- 10:15 Charles
Semple and Mike Steel "Using binary characters to infer
phylogenetic trees"
10:15 -- 10:45 Allen Rodrigo "On the
inconsistency of splits-graphs"
10:45 -- 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 -- 12:00 Michael Charleston "Jungles, machetes, and
savagely twisted lianas: some recent results in cophylogeny
mapping"
12:00 -- 12:30 Russell Gray on language evolution
(title TBA)
12:30 -- 2:00 Lunch
2:00 -- 2:30 Susan Holmes
"Applications of distances in tree space"
2:30 -- 3:00
David Epstein "Metrics on the space of trees and consensus
trees"
3:00 -- 3:45 Afternoon Tea
3:45 -- 4:15 Peter
Lockhart and Anthony Larkum "Ancient divergences: phylogeny or
the pattern of functional constraint"
4:15 -- 4:45 Lindell
Bromham "Hox genes, the Cambrian explosion and body plan
evolution"
Wednesday, 20 Feb: 6 - 9pm, Barbecue at the Aotearoa
Lodge
Thursday
9:15 -- 9:45 Anthony Larkum "Refining the SSU rRNA-based model
for plastid origins"
9:45 -- 10:15 Paul Gardner
"Optimality in an RNA world"
10:15 -- 10:45 Nicoleen Cloete
"Stochastic processes in the development of a
genealogy"
10:45 -- 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 -- 12:00
Howard Ross and Allen Rodrigo "Positive selection drives HIV-1
molecular variation and covaries with the length of disease"
12:00 -- 12:30 Peter Meintjes et al. "Changes in HIV-1
codon usage during infection"
12:30 -- 2:00 Lunch
2:00 --
2:30 Peter Waddell et al. "Resolving the tree of placental
mammals: the superiority of a statistical SINE approach and the
non-robustness of Bayesian approaches"
2:30 -- 3:00 Alexei
Drummond et al. "Bayesian evolutionary inference and measurably
evolving populations"
3:00 -- 3:45 Afternoon Tea
3:45 --
4:15 Geoff Nicholls et al. "Ancestral sequences"
4:15 --
4:45 Elchanan Mossel "Phase transitions and phylogeny"
Friday
9:15 -- 9:45 Robert Freckleton "Ecology and evolution of life
histories: some problems and current methodology"
9:45 --
10:15 Hamish Keston and Allen Rodrigo "A comparison of the
phylogenetic bootstrap and jackknife"
10:15 -- 11:00 Morning
Tea
11:00 -- 11:30 Abby Harrison (title TBA)
11:30 -- 12:00
Alex Grossmann "Mitochondrial phylogenies"
For more information, or if you have queries, please email Allen
Rodrigo.