When and where

When and where

This workshop will take place on Thursday 12th January as part of the SSB standalone meeting in Mexico City.

Schedule

Part 1 – Paleobotany: incorporating fossils to our analyses

9-9:30 h – Welcome and Introductions (30 min).

9:30-10:00 h - Lecture 1: Fossils and the geological timescale (30 min).

10:00-10:30 h – Lecture 2: Plant fossils and morphological data (30 min).

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10:30-11:00h – Coffee Break (30 min)

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11:00-11:30 h – Lecture 3: Statistical methods to cluster fossils with extant taxa

11:30-12:30 h – Practice: NMDS in R

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12:30-14:00 Lunch

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Part 2 – Bayesian Inference and divergence-time estimation

14:00-14:30 h – Lecture 4: Introduction to Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference

14:30-15:00 h – Lecture 5: Introduction to Divergence-Time Estimation

15:00-15:30 h – Lecture 6: The Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Model

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15:30-16:00 h – Coffee Break

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16:00-17:30 h – Practice: using RevBayes to estimate divergence times

17:30-19:00 h – Open practice and questions