Workshop Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics, July 27-31, Barcelona, Spain

["soledad.esteban" <soledad.esteban@icp.cat>]

Dear colleagues,

Registration is open for the course "INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS- 6 
th edition". 

INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK) and Dr. 
Jesús  Marugán (UAM, Spain). 

Dates and Place: July 27-31, 2014. This time the course will be held at the 
beautiful rural house "Can Julià"  (http://www.canjulia.org/?lang=en) , in 
Barcelona province  (Spain), with option to stay there during the course 
(all-inclusive option). 

Organized by: Transmitting Science and the Institut Català de Paleontologia 
Miquel  Crusafont. 

More information and registration:  
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/gm/introduction-to-gm/   or  writing 
to courses@transmittingscience.org 

This course is entitled to teach the main concepts of shape analysis based on  
landmark coordinates and its multivariate procedures, and how they can be put 
into practice across any biological discipline in which the phenotype (form) 
and  its variation are the principal sources of information.
 
Program:

1. Introduction: Shape, size and biological morphology.
2. Morphometric data: Equipment, landmarks, outlines and surfaces. 
3. Visualizing shapes and shape changes.
4. Looking at variation: PCA.
5. Distinguishing groups: CVA and discriminant analysis.
6. Symmetry and asymmetry.
7. Morphometrics in a messy world: outliers and measurement error.
8. Regression and allometry.
9. Covariation between things: PLS.
10. Morphological integration.
11. Modularity.
12. Phylogeny and comparative methods.
13. Putting things together: Combining analyses to solve biological questions.
14. Presentation of group work by participants.Please feel free to distribute 
this information between your colleagues if you  consider it appropriate. 

With best regards 

Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD.
soledad.esteban@icp.cat

Researcher at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)

Edifici Z -ICTA-ICP-  C/ de les Columnes s/n.
Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
E-08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès. Spain
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