Dear colleagues, Registration is open for Transmitting Science course "Modelling and Analysing Multivariate Traits Evolution using R"- 4th edition. This course only accepts 16 participants, acceptance on "first come, first served" basis. Dates and schedule: Online live sessions on May 12th, 14th, 16th, 19th, and 21st, 2025; from 14:00 to 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:00 to 15:00 (Madrid time zone). Instructor: Dr. Julien Clavel [1] (NNRS, France), author of the package mvMORPH [2] (together with Aaron King and Emmanuel Paradis). This course is addressed to any researcher studying phylogenetic comparative methods using multivariate data. For all the information, please check the course webpage: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/modelling-and-analysing-multivariate-traits-evolution-using-mvmorph/ Course overview: In this workshop students will be introduced to multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods with the mvMORPH R package. The mvMORPH package contains tools for modelling the evolution of correlated continuous traits (e.g. morphometric measurement, geometric morphometric datasets, life history traits, gene expression data, etc.) on phylogenetic trees [ with either fossil species, extant species or both] as well as statistical tools such as multivariate generalized least squares (GLS) linear models -e.g. multivariate regression, MANOVA, MANCOVA - for studying comparative datasets. In this course, students will be first introduced to some theory with illustrative examples (both from simulated data as well as students' own datasets) and will learn how to interpret the models, their parameters, as well as how to assess their reliability. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the course coordinator at courses@transmittingscience.com With best regards Sole -- Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD Director Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com [3] Check the full list of Transmitting Science upcoming courses here: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ X @SoleDeEsteban Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-0890 Under the provisions of current regulations on the protection of personal data, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform you that personal data and email address, collected from the data subject will be used by TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL to manage communications through email and properly manage the professional relationship with you. The data are obtained based on a contractual relationship or the legitimate interest of the Responsible, likewise the data will be kept as long as there is a mutual interest for it. The data will not be communicated to third parties, except for legal obligations. We inform you that you can request detailed information on the processing as well as exercise your rights of access, rectification, portability and deletion of your data and those of limitation and opposition to its treatment by contacting Calle Gardenia, 2 Urb. Can Claramunt de Piera CP: 08784 (Barcelona) or sending an email to info@transmittingscience.com or http://transmittingscience.com/additional-terms. If you consider that the processing does not comply with current legislation, you can complain with the supervisory authority at www. aepd.es . Confidentiality. - The content of this communication, as well as that of all the attached documentation, is confidential and is addressed to the addressee. If you are not the recipient, we request that you indicate this to us and do not communicate its contents to third parties, proceeding to its destruction. Disclaimer of liability. - The sending of this communication does not imply any obligation on the part of the sender to control the absence of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and/or any other harmful computer program, and it corresponds to the recipient to have the necessary hardware and software tools to guarantee both the security of its information system and the detection and elimination of harmful computer programs. TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL shall not be liable. Links: [1] https://www.transmittingscience.com/instructors/julien-clavel [2] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mvMORPH/index.html [3] http://www.transmittingscience.com Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca) soledad.esteban@transmittingscience.com (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)