EEOB 881.05: Seminar in Coalescent Theory
Winter 2007, Fridays 12:00 - 1:30pm

Tentative Schedule:
Meeting Date Reading in text Supplemental reading Leaders
1 January 5 Organizational meeting - no reading None
2 January 12 Chapter 1, pgs. 1-32 None Laura Kubatko
3 January 19 Chapter 2, pgs. 33-65 Hudson, 1990, pgs. 1-12
Carstens et al., 2004		Craig Barrett
4 January 26 Chapter 3, pgs. 67-91 Rosenberg and Nordborg, 2002
Jennings and Edwards, 2005 		Megan Shoff
5 February 2 Chapter 4, pgs. 95-126 Hudson, 1990, pgs. 19-32
Alvarez-Casteneda and Patton, 2004		Annie Lindgren
6 February 9 Chapter 5, pgs. 127-169 Hudson, 1990, pgs. 13-19
7 February 16Chapter 6, pgs. 173-195 Stumpf et al. 2003 Abby Reft
8 February 23 None Beerli and Felsenstein, 1999, 2001 Lisle Gibbs
9 March 2 Chapter 7, pgs. 199-228 Nothing yet Paul Fuerst
10 March 9 Chapter 8, pgs. 231-252 Garrigan and Hammer, 2006 Omar Ulvi

Click here to download a pdf file with an example of some of the analysis we discussed at the end of Chapter 2.

Click here to download the Excel spreadsheet which computes the gene tree topology distribution for four taxa discussed in class in week 4.
Click here for instructions on using it.