Course content

Phylogenomics is a group of techniques within the larger fields of phylogenetics and genomics, and focuses on genome data and evolutionary reconstructions. Phylogenomics draws information by comparing entire genomes, or at least large portions of genomes.

Learning outcome

Advances in high-throughput sequencing and genomics have revolutionized research in evolutionary biology and systematics. The use of genomics data in phylogenetic analyses has brought new challenges in terms of data handling and analysis. This course aims to help those that have basic experience in bioinformatics and molecular phylogenetics, and have projects focused on high-throughput sequencing data and phylogenetics, to become acquainted with tools, programs and pipelines for phylogenomics and want to contact phylogenomic studies beyond the standard also addressing potentially confunding biases in their datasets.

Admission to the course

If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.

PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must apply for a position as a visiting student within a given deadline.

All must apply for admission at the link at: ForBio course: Phylogenomics - ForBio (uio.no). Deadline is August 15th.

The course is limited to 14 students. The course is arranged by the National research School in Biosystematics, ForBio. Priority will be given to members of ForBio.

BIOS5114 – Molecular Evolution (continued).

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The workshop will consist of lectures and hands-on work aiming to provide the participants with a good working knowledge of genomic data for phylogenomics, and to become acquainted with tools, programs and pipelines for phylogenomics. To encourage discussion, participants will work in pairs most of the time. All exercises will be carried out using example data handed out by the teachers during the workshop, but all exercises and results can be readily transposed to individual research data.

Examination

The examination will consist of a written report on a provided case study. The report will need to be submitted within two weeks after the workshop. The report must be approved to pass the course and receive a grade and credit.

Examination attempts

It will be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: BIO9905FBI2 – Phylogenomics (continued)

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.

More about examinations at UiO

You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.

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Facts about this course

Level
PhD
Credits
5
Teaching
Autumn

The course is last held autumn 2022

Examination
Autumn .

Examination is last held autumn 2022

Teaching language
English

Contact

Department of Biosciences