Large scale evolutionary inference

Data that can be used to answer evolutionary questions is being generated on unprecedented scales.
How can we take advantage of evolutionary information in large data sets,
in a way that is:

• biologically informed
• statistically rigorous
• computationally efficient?

Recent news

March 2026: Preprint with collaborators at Imperial College London on Assembling a fully-dated complete tree of life

Nov 2025: Jimmy Choi published a preprint from his undergraduate research Neo-sex chromosomes are not correlated with ecology or environment in eutherian mammals

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