Seminar Series: Claudia Solis-Lemus

February 25, 2021

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Virtual Presentation

Add to Calendar 2021-02-25 15:00:00 2021-02-25 16:00:00 Seminar Series: Claudia Solis-Lemus Title New challenges in phylogenetic inference Meeting Link Speaker Claudia Solis-Lemus - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Institiute for Discovery; Department of Plant Pathology Abstract Phylogenetics studies the evolutionary relationships between different organisms, and its main goal is the inference of the Tree of Life. Usual statistical inference techniques like maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) have been widely used, but their performance deteriorates as the datasets increase in number of genes or number of species. I will present different approaches to improve the scalability of phylogenetic inference: from divide-and-conquer methods based on pseudolikelihood, to computation of Frechet means in BHV space, finally concluding with neural network models to approximate posterior distributions in tree space. The proposed methods will allow scientists to include more species into the Tree of Life, and thus complete a broader picture of evolution. Virtual Presentation Department of Statistics webmaster@stat.osu.edu America/New_York public

Title

New challenges in phylogenetic inference

Meeting Link

Speaker

Claudia Solis-Lemus - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Institiute for Discovery; Department of Plant Pathology

Abstract

Phylogenetics studies the evolutionary relationships between different organisms, and its main goal is the inference of the Tree of Life. Usual statistical inference techniques like maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) have been widely used, but their performance deteriorates as the datasets increase in number of genes or number of species. I will present different approaches to improve the scalability of phylogenetic inference: from divide-and-conquer methods based on pseudolikelihood, to computation of Frechet means in BHV space, finally concluding with neural network models to approximate posterior distributions in tree space. The proposed methods will allow scientists to include more species into the Tree of Life, and thus complete a broader picture of evolution.