Mini-Symposium and Workshop on Evolutionary Simulation

NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRES: www.phylo.org) project and University of Pennsylvania Penn Center for Bioinformatics (PCBI: pcbi.upenn.edu) announce a Mini-Symposium on “Evolutionary Simulation”.

1. 9:00-9:15 Introduction Junhyong Kim (U Penn)

2. 9:10-10:00 Million-Taxon Macroevolution Simulation for Phylogenetic Algorithm Benchmarks (part 1)

   Million-Taxon Macroevolution Simulation for Phylogenetic Algorithm Benchmarks (part 2)

   Tracy Heath (UT-Austin) and Sheng Guo (UPenn)

3. 10:00-10:50 Mitochondrial Genomes—Evolution at Three Scales Paul Higgs (McMaster)

4. 10:50-11:10 Break

5. 11:10-12:00 What are the Determinants of Protein Evolutionary Rates in Yeast? Claus Wilke (UT-Austin)

6. 12:00-1:30 Lunch

7. 1:20-2:20 Christina Burch (UNC-Chapel Hill), “Sexual Reproduction Selects for Robustness and Negative Epistasis in Artificial Gene Networks”

8. 2:20-3:10 Laura Landweber (Princeton), “Scrambled genes as a model for the origin of complexity”

9. 3:10-3:30 Break

10. 3:30-4:20 John Yin (UW-Madison), “Evolution on a Budget: Insights from Simulations of Virus Growth”

11. 4:20-5:10 Carlo Maley (Wistar), “Multi-scale Modeling of Evolution in Tumors”