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| Website | https://biology.anu.edu.au/people/academics/robert-lanfear |
Rob Lanfear
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I'm a Professor of Biology (well, phylogenetics and molecular evolution) at the Australian National University in Canberra. Mostly I post about work, but otherwise it's kids, running, and surfing when I can get to the ocean.
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Finally quit twitter. What a mess. I'll miss it though!
Iโm looking for some *really big* (ideally millions of rows) biological datasets for a โData Science in Biologyโ course.
Ideally they should be:
* archived with a DOI
* have an associated paper or two, with some cool questions
* be messy observational data, or collated across many studies
If you have any pointers, Iโd be extremely grateful! Please boost!
thijsjanzen@RobLanfear
I work on model inference, and phylogenetic tree statistics.
Currently, I'm developing an R package that collates many, many (50+) phylogenetic tree statistics and allows for superfast (Rcpp) code to execute them.
#phylogenetics #treestats
Ch. Julian Villabona-Arenas@RobLanfear I work on #phylogenetics of #HIV and other viruses.
Most recent work:
Using phylogenetics to infer HIV-1 transmission direction between known transmission pairs:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2210604119
Joanna Masel@RobLanfear I use #phylogenetics for studying long-term trends in #protein #evolution, classifying proteins by age since birth, and looking for biases in retention and in descent with modification. We are currently interested in reconstructing the #proteome of the #LastUniversalCommonAncestor.
Daniel TamaritNice initiative, @RobLanfear! I am currently working on my postdoc with @ettemalab, using #phylogenetics and #phylogenomics to resolve the relationship between Eukaryotes and Asgard archaea. I will keep using these methods to study evolutionary transitions in my future tenure-track position at Utrecht University.
Susan Tsang@RobLanfear I work on #phylogenetics and #biogeography of Old World fruit bats (especially flying foxes) as it pertains to dispersal and island landscapes. There's also a ton of taxonomic clean up needed since prior to the modern synthesis, people would just go "surely that's a new species because it's a different color and we're on a new island". I work in weird places, so we do a lot of local community conservation too, and I've started working on bat immunological evolution as well recently
Claudia Solis-Lemus