Ayuda para proyecto de morfometria de primates

Hola a todos, soy una tesista peruana, estoy realizando mi investigacion sobre Morfometria geometrica en craneos de primates, quisiera saber si alguien me pudiera ayudar con eso, porque aqui los conocimientos de MG son muy pocos, quiero trabajar mi investigacion con el TPS, pero no si se sea el mas indicado, agradeceria muchisimo la ayuda,

Saludos para todos

Anahis Beltran

Analysis of Organismal Form, a Web-based course

Analysis of Organismal Form

An introduction to morphometrics, delivered as a Web-based course

9 November – 18 December 2009

Instructor: Chris Klingenberg

Dear morphometricians

I am pleased to announce this year's morphometrics course from the University of Manchester. This year's course will run in the six weeks from 9 November to 18 December 2009.

The course information can be found on the following we site:
http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoCourse

Course content:

• * Data acquisition: the kinds of data and the equipment used to collect them.
• * Definitions of size and shape
• * Geometric methods to characterise shape from a configuration of landmark points (Procrustes superimposition)
• * Statistics of variation, scatter plots, basic multivariate statistics
• * Principal component analysis
• * Measurement error and outliers
• * Shape transformations and 'warping' -- the thin plate spline
• * Analysis of outline shapes
• * Distinguishing between groups (taxonomy, clinical diagnosis, etc.)
• * Allometry and size correction
• * Influence of external factors on shape (ecomorphology, dose-response studies)
• * Symmetric forms and measurement of asymmetry.
• * Morphometric inferences on developmental processes, morphological integration, modularity
• * Genetics of shape: analyses of resemblance between relatives, QTL analyses.
• * Phylogeny: reconstructing the evolution of shape

Practice examples:
As far as possible, practical exercises are provided to accompany the course content. These practice exercises consist of data sets and explanations on how to run the respective analyses using the MorphoJ software (http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm). Participants who already have their own data are encouraged to use those and to discuss them as part of the course. I hope there will be a bit of a 'workshop' feel to the course unit.

Group work:
Participants will work in small groups to prepare web presentations of possible morphometric studies. This activity stimulates discussion and provides a broad overview of questions that can be addressed with morphometric methods.

The fee for the course is GBP 190.00 (I'm afraid it's gone up a bit from last year -- but the UK pound has dropped against most other currencies...).

All prospective participants need to pre-register for the course. The deadline for this is the *31 August 2009*.

For further details, see the course web page:
http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoCourse

Best wishes,
Chris

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Christian Peter Klingenberg
Faculty of Life Sciences
The University of Manchester
Michael Smith Building
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PT
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 161 275 3899
Fax: +44 161 275 5082
Web: http://www.flywings.org.uk
Skype: chris_klingenberg
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Financiamiento disponible para asistente de investigacion

Dear morphometricians,

there is a possibility that a Marie Curie funded short-term fellowship will be available in the Functional Morphology and Evolution Unit of the Hull York Medical School (http://hyms.fme.googlepages.com/home).

The project will be for a maximum of nine months (and a minimum of three) and will focus on biogeographic variation in skull morphology in red colobus monkeys, or similar. It will be supervised by Andrea Cardini and Sarah Elton. The data are already collected, and we are looking for someone with experience of geometric morphometric and / or spatial data analysis.

As it is a Marie Curie Early Stage fellowship, prospective fellows must be in the early stages of their research career (i.e. should not have a PhD or equivalent). UK nationals are not eligible to apply. Nationals of all other countries are eligible provided they have spent fewer than 12 months in the UK in total. The Fellowship must be completed by the end of March 2010. The funding for this project is dependent on finding a suitable applicant, and then is subject to confirmation. However, Andrea or Sarah would love to hear from interested people!

With kindest regards

Sarah and Andrea


Dr Sarah Elton
Reader in Anatomy; Phase I SSC Coordinator
Hull York Medical School
Email: sarah.elton(AT)hyms(DOT)ac(DOT)uk
Web: http://hyms.fme.googlepages.com/drsarahelton2


Dr. Andrea Cardini
Lecturer in Animal Biology

Museo di Paleobiologia e dell'Orto Botanico, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia

via Università 4, 41100, Modena, Italy
tel: 0039 059 2056532; fax: 0039 059 2056535
Honorary Fellow
Functional Morphology and Evolution Unit, Hull York Medical School
University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK

E-mail address: alcardini(AT)interfree(DOT)it, andrea(DOT)cardini(AT)unimore(DOT)it, andrea(DOT)cardini(AT)hyms(DOT)ac(DOT)uk

http://hyms.fme.googlepages.com/drandreacardini