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Summer school – ”Taming the BEAST”

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(Forwarded e-mail fro Chi Chang)

We are happy to announce our Summer School ”Taming the BEAST” and would kindly ask you to forward this email to interested students and PostDocs. We apologize if you receive this email more than once.

Phylogenetics and phylodynamics are central topics in modern biology. Phylogenetic inferences reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between organisms, whereas phylodynamic inferences reveal the dynamics that lead to the observed relationships. These two fields have many practical applications in disciplines such as epidemiology, developmental biology, paleontology, ecology and even linguistics. However, phylogenetics and phylodynamics are complex and fast-evolving fields. As such, inference tools are not easily accessible to researchers who are not from a computational background.

Taming the BEAST is a summer school focusing on the BEAST2 software and consisting of a mix of invited talks, lectures and hands-on tutorials by leading and renowned experts in the field (including several of the core developers of BEAST2). The aim of this summer school is to equip participants with the skills necessary to confidently perform their own phylogenetic and phylodynamic inferences in Bayesian settings, while providing them with a firm grasp of the theory behind those inferences. Participants are also highly encouraged to bring their own datasets along and to engage with the organizers and speakers to address any problems specific to their own datasets/analyses.

Registration is now open! We welcome applications from graduate students and early-career scientists in the life sciences. Preference will be given to applicants who are not from a computational background and applicants who have already collected/assembled a dataset that they need to analyze.

Invited speakers:

Tanja Stadler (ETH Zurich)
Alexei Drummond (University of Auckland)
Tracy Heath (Iowa State University)
Tim Vaughan (University of Auckland)
Oliver Pybus (University of Oxford)

Dates: June 26th to July 1st  (Registration deadline: March 15th)

Place: Engelberg, Switzerland

For more information regarding the program, registration, venue, etc, please visit the summer school website: https://www.bsse.ethz.ch/cevo/taming-the-beast.html

We hope to see you there,

the Taming the BEAST organizing team

ForBio and UiB course: Introduction to phylogenetic methods

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Time and place: Nov 2 – Nov 6, 2015, University of Bergen

ForBio opens for participation of up to 8 students from Nordic universities in the regular University of Bergen (UiB) course Phylogenetic methods (http://www.uib.no/en/course/BIO332).

The course is aimed primarily at students who will do phylogenetic computation in their thesis work, but who have no hands-on experience with some of the more frequently used software applications. Introductory lectures will cover topics such as properties of data and trees, models of evolutionary change, phylogenetic signal, model testing, and hypothesis testing. The students will learn how to prepare their data, explore the properties of the data, how to use distance, parsimony, likelihood and Bayesian methods in computation in packages such as PAUP*, MrBayes, BEAST, RaxML, and how to present results with graphical applications.

Click here for more information about the course.

Application deadline is October 5th, 2015, and applications should be sent directly by email to: endre.willassen@uib.no. The application must indicate the academic background of the applicant and the topic and the present state of progress in the thesis work. Please add a recommendation from your supervisor.

Contact Endre Willassen (endre.willassen@uib.no) for questions about the course or Hugo de Boer (hugo.deboer@nhm.uio.no) for more information about ForBio.

ForBio workshop: Bayesian inference using BEAST

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Time and place: Nov 2, 2015 09:00 AM – Nov 6, 2015 05:00 PM, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

The workshop aims to help those that have some experience of Bayesian model-based phylogenetics. The course focuses on issues relating to identification of priors, and the impact of different priors on posterior results.

Maximum number of participants is 26. If there are more than 26 applicants priority will be given to ForBio applicants best fulfilling the prerequisites given.

Application deadline is September 18, 2015.

For more information about the course: http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2015/beast_workshop_2015.pdf

To apply: https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/67500.html

Contact Hugo de Boer (hugo.deboer@nhm.uio.no) or Stephan Nylinder (stephan.nylinder@nrm.se) for more information.

ForBio course: Introduction to Bioinformatics for Biosystematics

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ForBio course: Introduction to Bioinformatics for Biosystematics

Time and place: Oct 5, 2015 – Oct 9, 2015, Natural History Museum, Oslo, Norway

Basic programming skills are essential for handling large datasets and performing complex analyses in biosystematics. This course aims to provide the students with tools to solve practical problems often encountered in biosystematic research. Course topics include Python, R, and SQL. An introduction is arranged October 3-4 (Saturday and Sunday) for participants without previous experience of GNU/Linux and Bash.

Click here for more information about the course.

Click here to apply now.

Application deadline: September 11, 2015.

Extended deadline 31/7: ForBio and DialPast course ”innovation in science through science communication”

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Dear Systematikföreningen!

There are still a few places left on this unique ForBio course. DialPast and ForBio course “Innovation in science through science communication”, taking place at Natural Science Library, University of Oslo, September 14 – 18, 2015.

In this course you will get training in communicating your own research and field to different target groups. You will get an overview of the different genres and new ways to communicate in order to achieve what you want. In addition to the basics, you will gain skills in scientific storytelling, essay writing, graphic design, oral presentations and interviews. You will learn how to visualise your own hypotheses and research, how to write a killer essay and news items, how to use essay writing in order to improve your own research process, how to talk to the crowd and journalists, and how to think more strategic about science communication. You will be coached to publish a killer essay or news item made during the course in suitable media. Other writing and designs are intended to contribute directly to your own research and scientific publications.

Deadline for applying is July 31, 2015.

More information about the course and how to register can be found at http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2015/scicomm.html

Welcome!

ForBio/Hugo and Magnus

Summer school on Tropical Biology in Tanzania 2015

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Ansökningsfrist för att kunde komma med på kursen, som är i Udzungwa Mts 24 augusti – 6 september 2015, är slutet på juni. För mer information och hur man ansöker: http://www.muse.it/it/La-Ricerca/Biodiversita-tropicale/Proposte-formative/Pagine/Summer-School-2015.aspx

Kontaktperson för kursen är Nikolaj Scharff (nscharff@snm.ku.dk).

Lavkurs i Södermanland 4-8 maj 2015

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Svenska artprojektet och ForBio ordnar med stöd av Stiftelsen Oscar och Lilli Lamms minne en kurs om artbestämning av lavar 4–8 maj 2015. Göran Thor från SLU håller i kursen. Anmäl dig senast 10 april 2015. Läs mer om lavkursen: http://www.slu.se/Global/externwebben/centrumbildningar-projekt/artdatabanken/Dokument/Svenska%20artprojektet/Forskarskola/Lichen%20Course%202015.pdf

 

News from DEST

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Info from Hendrik Gheerardyn:

Dear all,

The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) http://www.taxonomytraining.eu/, an initiative under the CETAF umbrella and managed by RBINS, has launched its NEW website and training programme for 2014-2015!

Check out the Modern Taxonomy programme http://taxonomytraining.eu/content/modern-taxonomy-2014-2015 offering intensive theoretical courses in various subjects. Also, have a look at the Expert-in-training programme http://taxonomytraining.eu/content/expert-training-2014-2015 enabling trainees to develop and strengthen their taxonomic research skills through on-the-job-training.

Thank you for spreading the word!
With best regards,

DEST Training
Coordination – Dr Isabella Van de Velde
Secretariat – Dr Hendrik Gheerardyn

Training course on identification of soil fauna

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This course is arranged by the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative (STI) and the Research School In Biosystematics (ForBio), and is given in Uppsala at the Ecology department, SLU in 10-14 november 2014.

The course will cover the most important soil fauna groups. Teaching consists of lectures by internationally renowned experts followed by practical seminars to give students hands-on determination experience. Emphasis will be on understanding the diversity in a soil sample, in addition to acheive a deeper knowledge of identification and sampling in at least one of the studied organism groups: Potworms (Enchytraeidae, småringmaskar); springtails (Collembola, hoppstjärtar); soil nematodes (Nematoda, marklevande rundmaskar); oribatid mites (Oribatida, hornkvalster); woodlice (soil living Isopoda, gråsuggor); or soil living insect larvae (Insecta, marklevande insektslarver).

More information about the workshop and instructions on how to register can be found on the webpages of ForBio, Svenska artprojektet (Swedish Taxonomy Initiative) and Artsdatabanken. Application deadline is October 20, 2014.

Contact Sanna Nordström at STI (sanna.nordstrom@slu.se) or Aino Hosia at ForBio (aino.hosia@um.uib.no. ) for more information.

ForBio course ”Introduction to GPS and GIS” in Oslo October 13-14, 2014.

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Dear all,

ForBio invite you to the course ”Introduction to GPS and GIS” in Oslo October 13-14, 2014.

The course will provide basic understanding of GPS devices and the recording of geographic coordinates during field work. We will also explore map making using GIS tools such as Quantum GIS and R. The participants will learn how to access and download species occurrence data from the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) portal and how-to share and publish data from own field work to GBIF.

More information about the course can be found at http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/gis_intro.html.

Application deadline is September 15, 2014.

Contact Heidi Solstad (Heidi.solstad@ntnu.no) if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Magnus