Computational Molecular Evolution

Module 1:   Introduction to evolutionary theory and population genetics: models of growth, selection and mutation
Module 2:   Neutral mutations and genetic drift. Tree reconstruction by parsimony
Module 3:   Consensus trees. Distance matrix methods
Module 4:   Models of sequence evolution. Likelihood methods
Module 5:   Bayesian inference of phylogeny
Module 6:   Testing hypotheses in a phylogenetic context