Training in Innovative Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods at the Society of Systematic Biologists Meeting, January, 2017, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

这次研讨会将为研究生和职业生涯早期的研究人员提供一个急需的培训机会，让他们了解进化生物学中分析大数据的最新尖端方法。讲习班参与者将从不同水平的专门知识中招募，具体努力针对代表性不足的少数群体。参与者将接受关于这些工具背后的理论和应用的培训。课程将由开发这些计算工具的专家教员讲授。将通过GitHub向研究界和公众提供研讨会材料的长期访问，如幻灯片、教程、源代码和样本数据集。系统发育和比较方法正在快速发展，个别研究人员经常发现很难跟上最新的发展。该讲习班将提供以下培训课程：a)了解比较方法(以Bayou R图书馆和Arbor平台为特色)，b)生物地理学培训(以BioGeoBears和RevBayes为特色)，c)系统地理学模型选择(通过PhRapl)，d)使用TreeScaper可视化和探索树集，以及e)系统发育图书馆(通过Dendropy)。

This workshop will provide a much-needed training opportunity for graduate students and early-career researchers in the latest cutting edge approaches for analyzing big data in evolutionary biology. Workshop participants will be recruited from diverse levels of expertise with a specific effort to target underrepresented minorities. Participants will be trained in the theory behind, and the application of these tools. Sessions will be taught by expert faculty, who developed these computational tools. Long-term access to workshop materials, such as slides, tutorials, source codes, and exemplar datasets will be made available to the research community and the public via GitHub. Phylogenetic and comparative methods are advancing at a rapid pace, and individual researchers often find it difficult to keep abreast of the latest developments. This workshop will offer the following training sessions: a) understanding comparative methods (featuring the bayou R library and the Arbor platform), b) training in biogeography (featuring BioGeoBears, and RevBayes), c) model selection in phylogeography (via Phrapl), d) visualization and exploration of tree sets using TreeScaper, and e) phylogenetic libraries (via Dendropy).