Sabbatical Fellows at NIMBioS in 2012
NIMBioS supports several Sabbatical Fellows each year. These individuals come to NIMBioS for a few months to a year with the length of stay determined by the objectives of the proposed project.
James H. Degnan
(Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Canterbury)
Project Title: Extending the multispecies coalescent: Properties of unrooted gene trees and gene trees given species networks
Recent years have seen an explosion in methods for estimating evolutionary trees for species (species trees) from trees estimated at different genes in a genome (gene trees). The widely-used multispecies coalescent model, which comes from applying a population genetics model, the coalescent, to a species phylogeny, is often used to develop maximum likelihood and Bayes methods for estimating species trees from gene trees. Dr. Degnan's research extends the use of the multispecies coalescent model in phylogenetics for greater applicability to unrooted gene trees and to complex hybridization events among species.
Sabbatical Dates: January - June, 2012
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