Lectures will be held on Mondays 9:00-10:30 am

2. 10. - Introduction, taxonomy, molecular characters, sekvencing of DNA (Hampl)

9. 10. - Alignment of sequences (Novotný)

16. 10. – Sequence databases and searches in them (Novotný)

23. 10. – Other methods of obtaining of molecular data – multilocus methods (RAPD, RFPL etc.), microsatelites, minisatelites, SINE elements, protein mass fingerprint (Hampl)

30. 10. - SNP, sequence evolution, calculation of genetic distances (Hampl)

6. 11. – Phylogenetic trees I. - Protein distances, reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from the distance matrix, anatomy of trees (Hampl)

13. 11. (absent the lecture will be substituted) - Phylogenetic trees II. Rate heterogeneity, search through the tree space, maximum parsimony (Hampl)

20. 11. - Phylogenetic trees III. - Maximum likelihood, Bayesian metod (Hampl)

27. 11. - Phylogenetic trees IV. - Multigene analyses, robustness of branching, rooting of trees, topology tests, molecular dating (Hampl)

4. 12. – Forensic genetics, DNA barcoding (Hampl)

11. 12. – Intraspecific phylogeny, population structure and gene flow, phylogeography, examples (Hampl)

18. 12. – Metabarcoding – methods of diversity analyses from environmental sequencing data (Hampl)

8. 1. – Presentation of student essays