Open+Door+Day+-+LMU

On Thursday, 10th of July the Biology Faculty of the LMU invited interested citizens (especially school students) to an Open Door Day. The aim was to present the work of the different groups and provide information for possible applicants. Soumya, Vedran and Fabian organized an interactive task about phylogenetic relationships. It was part of the booth of the Evolutionary Biology Department. This outreach activity was initiated and supervised by Dirk Metzler.

Interested citizens were asked to place multiple species at the end of the branches of given phylogenetic trees. Afterwards an //in silico// sequence comparison provided the real trees. The examples had different levels of difficulty and - for most visitors - surprising results.