Research themes

The research themes of the group include the following:

Coalescent methods

Measure-valued diffusions

Computationally efficient inference

Recent human evolution

Forensic DNA profiling

Association mapping

Grants

• Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship, "Foundational issues in the use of mtDNA for demographic inference" (to Vincent Macaulay, under Peter Donnelly)
• EPSRC Grant "Infinite dimensional stochastic processes and their application" (to Alison Etheridge)
• EPSRC Grant, Professorship and University Lectureship in Bioinformatics
• Wellcome Trust/UK Joint Infrastructure Fund, "Oxford Centre for Gene Function" (to Peter Donnelly and others)
• BBSRC Postdoctoral Research Assistantship "Demographic and ancestral inference from DNA sequences" (to Bob Griffiths, Maria de Iorio in position)
• EPSRC Studentship "Computationally intensive methods for inference about selection in DNA sequences" (to Bob Griffiths, Graham Coop in position)
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship "Estimating evolutionary parameters from DNA sequence data" (to Gil McVean)
• BBSRC Studentship in Genes and Developmental Biology "Population genetics inference with complex selection models" (to Gil McVean, Chris Spencer in position)
• University of Oxford Postdoctoral Research Assistantship (to Gil McVean)
• Wellcome Trust Mathematical Biology Training Fellowship "Data mining large genetic datasets" (to Jonathan Marchini, under Peter Donnelly)
• Nuffield Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Mathematics (to Peter Donnelly)
• MRC Grant, Five Postdoctoral Research Associates in Bioinformatics (to Jotun Hein)

Previous support has included:

• Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, Marshall-Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship "Methods for estimating selection and demographics using DNA sequence data" (to Carlos Bustamante, under Peter Donnelly)
• EPSRC Grant "Infinite dimensional stochastic models and inference for population genetics" (for Peter Donnelly, Alison Etheridge and Neil Laws)
• BBSRC Grant "Coalescent-based estimation of demographic parameters, selection, and genealogical structure in multilocus genetic data sets" (for Peter Donnelly with David Goldstein)
• EPSRC Grant "Stochastics processes in spatially continuous populations: applications in evolution and ecology" (for Alison Etheridge)
• Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in Biodiversity, "Novel statistical methods for understanding biodiversity in pathogens and their vectors via tree reconstruction" (for Matthew Stephens, under Peter Donnelly)
• NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Genes, fossils, and behaviour: an integrated approach to human evolution" (for Peter Donnelly)
• Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Hitchings-Elion award, "Population structure and linkage disequilibrium in association mapping" (for Jonathan Pritchard, under Peter Donnelly)
• Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship, "Molecular diversity of HSV-1 and human evolution" (to Rory Bowden, under Peter Donnelly and Ryk Ward)
• NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics (to Molly Przeworski, under Peter Donnelly)