Workshops in Molecular Evolution 1997-1999, Woods Hole, MA

9615098 Sogin马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室在1997年至1999年期间继续支持一系列有价值的跨学科分子进化夏季讲习班。研讨会提供分子系统发育和进化生物学方面的培训，并促进分子、细胞和发育生物学家、生理学家、系统学家和理论家之间的合作努力。在分子进化，人口和系统生物学，发育生物学和计算生物学领域的领导者提出了一个与计算机实验室相结合的系列讲座。在每年研讨会的第一阶段，60名学生将参加为期两周的讲座和实验；在第二阶段，最多15名学生将参加为期一周的特别项目会议。所涵盖的主题反映了大量讲师的专业知识，并跟踪该领域的前沿发展，但通常包括生命起源理论、分子数据的系统发育重建、大分子序列比对技术、分子系统学的当前趋势、发育途径的进化和比较基因组学。在计算机实验室中，运行各种操作系统的高速机器被用来测试系列讲座中描述的理论概念。在系统发育分析的作者和基因序列比较计算机软件包的设计者的指导下，学生们探索了使用分子数据研究进化现象的广泛分析技术。有机会使用各种“最先进的”硬件实现系列讲座中描述的概念，将学生从平台限制中解放出来，这是本研讨会的一个显著特点。专题会议将允许多达15名学生在分子进化领域领导者的指导下处理他们的个人研究数据集，包括两位项目主任，dr。Sogin和Davis继续。本课程是为来自不同生物领域的知名研究人员、博士后研究员和研究生设计的，同时也关注生物识别界的成员和本科院校的教师。

9615098 Sogin The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA, continues to support a valuable interdisciplinary series of summer workshops in Molecular Evolution for the years 1997 through 1999. The workshops provide training in molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary biology and promote collaborative efforts among molecular, cellular, and developmental biologists, physiologists, systematists, and theoreticians. Leaders in the fields of Molecular Evolution, Population and Systematic Biology, Developmental Biology, and Computational Biology present a lecture series that is integrated with a computer laboratory. During the first phase of each year's workshop, 60 students will attend a two-week lecture and laboratory session; in the second phase, up to 15 students will participate in a one-week special projects session. Topics covered reflect the expertise of the large staff of lecturers and track pioneering developments in the field, but usually include the theory of origins of life, phylogenetic reconstructions from molecular data, macromolecular sequence alignment techniques, current trends in molecular systematics, evolution of developmental pathways, and comparative genomics. In the computer laboratory, high-speed machines running a variety of operating systems are used to test theoretical concepts described in the lecture series. Guided by authors of phylogenetic analyses and designers of computer packages for gene sequence comparisons, the students explore a wide array of analytical techniques for the study of evolutionary phenomena using molecular data. The opportunity to implement concepts described in the lecture series using diverse "state of the art" hardware frees the students from platform restrictions and is a distinguishing feature of this workshop. The special topics session will allow up to 15 students to work on their individual research data sets under the guidance of leaders in the field of molecular evolution, including the two project directors, Drs. Sogin and Davis on. The course is designed for established investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from diverse biological fields, with attention as well to members of the biometrics community and faculty from undergraduate institutions.