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Inference and informatics in a ‘sequenced’ world

Short lecture relating my recent work on real-time phylogenomics, implications for bioinformatics research and future directions of genomic/phylogenetic modelling to explicitly account for phylogeny, synteny and identity through coloured graphs. University of Reading, 2nd August 2017 Slides [SlideShare]: cc-by-nd Tweet … Continue reading

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Using field-based DNA sequencing to accelerate phylogenomics

Invited seminar at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, 30th November 2016. Summary of our field-based real-time phylogenomics (MinION DNA sequencing) experiments this year, and applicability to broad-scale tree-of-life phylogenomics and macroevolutionary biology. Slides [SlideShare]: cc-by-nd Tweet this Digg Post … Continue reading

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Real-time Phylogenomics

General science talk about the potential of real-time phylogenomics, delivered at the Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Kew Gardens, November 2nd 2015 Slides [SlideShare]: cc-by-nc-nd Tweet this Digg Post to LinkedIn Slashdot Stumble This

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Interpreting ‘tree space’ in the context of very large empirical datasets

Seminar presented at the Maths Department, University of Portsmouth, 19th November 2014 Evolutionary biologists represent actual or hypothesised evolutionary relations between living organisms using phylogenies, directed bifurcating graphs (trees) that describe evolutionary processes in terms of speciation or splitting events … Continue reading

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18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting – Storify!

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Phylogenomic convergence detection: lessons and perspectives

Talk presented at the 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting At Marseille (programme), 16th-19th September 2014. (Powerpoint – note this is a draft, not the final talk, pending authorisation): EBMdraft Tweet this Digg Post to LinkedIn Slashdot Stumble This

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