Howard Ross

Research

Interests

The application of computational and phylogenetic analyses to a wide range of problems:

• issues associated with using genomic sequences to determine the species identity of specimens
  (see DNA Surveillance at www.dna-surveillance.auckland.ac.nz)
• dynamics of sequences evolution in viral genomes
• the incidence of species-level paraphyly in different groups of animals
• the estimation of rates of molecular evolution
• the evolution of bird song, when considered to comprise gene-like memes
• the timing and path of human settlement of the Pacific

Associate Investigator: Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Publications

Supplementary Materials

Software

Teaching

In 2013 I will be involved in the following teaching.

• BIOINF 301
  BIOINF 701 - bioinformatic data sources, Perl programming, phylogenetic analysis, whole genome analysis
• BIOINF 703 - species identification from environmental DNA samples, genome assembly
• BIOSCI 202 - population, quantitative and evolutionary genetics
• BIOSCI 210 - phylogenetic trees
• BIOSCI 322 - systematics, phylogenetic tree, species identification and discovery
• BIOSCI 733 - selection at molecular level, phylogenetic analysis

Co-ordinator:

• BIOINF 301
• BIOINF 701
• BIOSCI 761 (Semester II)
• Bioinformatics Programme
• Postgraduate Advisor Biological Sciences (Pre-doctoral)

Teaching Resources

Things to help you learn, and have some fun too!

Trees from Hell

A rogue's gallery

My Genealogy

G. Evelyn Hutchinson grand-graduate-student