1. Research Topics Cytogenetic To plant biologists interested in patterns of genetic variation and evolution, analyses of chromosome numbers represent a fundamental step…

1. Reticulate evolution in the Saccharomyces genus and repeating it for the bioethanol industry David Peris, Kayla Sylvester, Maria Sardi, William Alexander, Diego Libkind,…

1. Population Structure and Reticulate Evolution of Wild and Brewing Yeast David Peris University of Wisconsin, Madison Peris D, Sylvester K, Libkind D, Sampaio JP, Gonçalves…

Slide 1Challenges in computational phylogenetics Tandy Warnow Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 Phylogeny From the Tree of the…

Slide 1CIPRES: Enabling Tree of Life Projects Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 Phylogeny Orangutan GorillaChimpanzee Human From the Tree of the Life…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Summary of fifth lesson Disease as “disease triangle”, effect of humans, disease as pant-microbe interaction Different types of disease of wild plants…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Summary of previous lesson Janzen-Connol hypothesis; explanation of why diseases lead to spatial heterogeneity Diseases also lead to heterogeneity or changes…

Slide 1 Classification and Phylogenies Taxonomic categories and taxa Inferring phylogenies –The similarity vs. shared derived character states –Homoplasy –Maximum parsimony,…

Slide 1 Computational and mathematical challenges involved in very large-scale phylogenetics Tandy Warnow The University of Texas at Austin Slide 2 How did life evolve on…

The Impact of Recent DNA Studies on the Classification of Section Pæonia Presentation to the International Peony Symposium Munich, Germany 7 May 05 Don Smith West Newton,…