Mesquite modeling workshop materials

8.4.2009

These materials were originally developed for a lecture that I gave to Scott Edwards' Molecular Evolution Lab about how to to conduct parametric simulations using the program Mesquite. After some modification, they served as the basis for a modeling workshop that I conducted at BYU. It's best to start with this file



Mesquite_example.nex

SIM_TREE

Pboot

REMOVE!

Mes_exam_emp.tre

Mes_exam_emp.nex

Constraint tree

Histograms.xls

biosketch

I'm from Chicago, and attended Michigan State University, where in 2001 I completed a M.S. in Zoology. I joined Jack Sullivan's lab at the University of Idaho, and completed my Ph. D. in 2004. Shortly after that, I joined Lacey Knowles' lab at the University of Michigan as a post-doctoral researcher. In July of 2007, I moved to Louisiana State University, where I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

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