Lectures
Week 1: Jan 12 - 16
Phylogenetic insights into infectious disease epidemiology
Week 2: Jan 19 - 23
No lecture Jan 19th: MLK Day
The statistical underpinnings of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference
Week 3: Jan 26 - 30
The statistical underpinnings of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference
Week 4: Feb 2 - 6
Exploring the origin and spread of epidemics with phylogeography
Week 5: Feb 9 - 13
Coalescent theory and the population genetics of molecular evolution
Week 6: Feb 16 - 20
Inferring transmission trees and who’s infecting whom
Week 7: Feb 23 - 27
Non-tree like evolution: Recombination, clonal frames and ancestral recombination graphs
Week 8: March 2 - 6
Week 9: March 9 - 13
Multi-type birth-death models and adaptive molecular evolution
Week 10: March 23 - 27
Modeling transmission dynamics with SIR models
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Week 11: March 30 - April 3
Modeling and simulating evolution with generative models
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Week 12: April 6 - 10
Putting it all together with phylodynamics: phylogenetics meets epidemic modeling
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Week 13: April 13 - 17
After the data deluge: scaling strategies for massive genomic datasets
Week 14: April 20 - 24
Predicting the (very near) future: forecasting pathogen evolution