MCB/EEB 371 - Spring 2002
This is the tentative list of topics for
MCB371.
Student presentations are scheduled to last about 20 minutes.
Chapters refer to the book from Wen-Hsiung Li "Molecular Evolution" (Sinauer,
http://www.sinauer.com/Titles/frlimol.htm).
| Date | Topic | Presenter |
| Feb 11 | Sequence Alignment
(Chapter 4) |
Lindsay Carubia |
| Feb 18 | Dynamics of genes in populations, random drift, fitness, effect of population size
(Chapter 2) |
Kamolwan Thirangoon |
| Feb 25 | Models of Substitution: Nucleotides (Chapter 3) |
Jeff Gawronski |
| Models of Substitution: Amino Acids | ||
| March 4 | Among Site Rate Variation (Chapter 3) | Reshma Shial |
| March 4 | Estimating number of substitutions (Chapter4) | William Smith |
| March 11 | Distance Analyses: Neighbor-Joining and UPGMA (Chapter 5) |
Ryan Novak |
| March 11 | Distance Analyses: Minimum evolution, Fitch-Margoliash (Chapter 5) |
Gianni Ferreri |
| March 11 | Principles of Parsimony Analyses
(Chapter 5) |
Tom Mullen |
| Maximum Likelihood Analyses (Chapter 5) |
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| Non-parametric Bootstrapping (Chapter 5) |
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| March 25 | Parametric Bootstrapping | Tao Sun |
| Bayesian Inference | ||
| April 8 | Examples: Origin of Eukaryotes (or/and other Examples) (Chapter 6) | Jim Macione |
| Rates and patterns of substitutions (Chapter 7) |
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| April 15 | Molecular Clocks (Chapter 8) |
Pascal Lapierre |
| Gene duplication, Transposition and horizontal transfer
(Chapter 10,11,12) |