Montag: Theory: 01. The Basics: Alignment 02. Evolutionary Models Practical Session: Multiple Sequence Alignment Dienstag: Theory: 03. Trees: Parsimony and Distance Methods 04. Tracing Phylogenetic Signal Practical Session: - Tree reconstruction with parsimony and distances - Checking for phylogenetic signal Mittwoch: Theory: 05. Maximum Likelihood analysis 06. Reliability with Bootstrapping and Quartet Puzzling Practical Session: - Reconstructing and assessing ML trees Donnerstag: Theory: 07. Bayesian Tree Sampling Practical Session: - Trees with MrBayes and Tracer Freitag: Theory: 08. Testing Trees Practical Session: - Testing trees Final Exam/Test