PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETICS: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 200B, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Instructors: Brent Mishler bmishler@calmail.berkeley.edu http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/ 642-6810 David Ackerly dackerly@calmail.berkeley.edu http://www.stanford.edu/group/ackerly/ 643-6341 GSI: Nathaniel Hallinan hallinan@berkeley.edu 643-9746

Syllabus

Reading Lists

Quizzes

Phylogenetics links

Spring 2007 meeting time: Tu-Th, 12:30 - 3:30 pm, room 3083 VLSB
(lab meets sometimes in 3056VLSB, sometimes in library computer room)

IB 200B focuses on the use of a historical framework to answer ecological and evolutionary questions.  This course covers applications of phylogenetics to ecology, evolution, development, functional morphology, populational genetics, conservation, biogeogeography, and speciation that are revolutionizing those fields.  Labs are closely integrated with lectures and cover the major algorithms and software.  Requirements include participation in discussion, two quizzes, and a term project. This project is an important practical experience; we allow (in fact, encourage) students to focus on questions that they are studying for their thesis or other research.

IB 200B is taught every other Spring semester and alternates with IB 200A "Principles of Phylogenetics: Systematics." Both are intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.  IB 200A covers the core theory and methodology for comparative biology: phylogenetic analyses using morphology and molecules, and living and fossil organisms.