Building and using dated phylogenies in the presence of bacterial recombination
Virtual seminar series: Horizontal evolutionary processes in phylogenetics
- Datum: 18.01.2022
- Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
- Vortragende(r): Professor Xavier Didelot (The University of Warwick, UK)
- Ort: Online
- Gastgeber: TIDE, Denise Kühnert
- Kontakt: tide-seminars@shh.mpg.de
Xavier Didelot
Professor,
School of Life Sciences,
The University of Warwick, UK
My research is concerned with understanding the way bacterial pathogens evolve,
spread and cause disease. I have analysed both epidemiological and genomic data
from a wide range of bacteria. A key aim is to develop new bioinformatics and
statistical methods that can handle the very large amounts of data made
available by novel high-throughput sequencing techniques. Because of the
interdisciplinary nature of my work, I have broad interests in a variety of
subjects, including theoretical topics such as mathematical population
genetics, Bayesian statistics or Monte-Carlo methods, and biological topics
such as bacterial evolutionary processes or pathogen epidemiology.