Computational Biology Group Members
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Professor Simon Tavaré FMedSci
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| Background |
Dr. Tavaré graduated from the University of Sheffield with BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Probability and Statistics. After more than 25 years in the USA, he was appointed Professor of Cancer Research (Bioinformatics) in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge in 2003, and was appointed as a Senior Group Leader in the CRI in 2006.
He is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he is chairman of the management committee of the
Cambridge Computational Biology Institute, and the Physics of Medicine Initiative and Co-director of the
MPhil in Computational Biology.
Dr. Tavaré is also a Research Professor, and George and Louise Kawamoto Chair in Biological Sciences, in the Program in Molecular and Computational Biology at the University of Southern California. Further details may be found here.
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| Research Overview |
- Topic 1:
Population genetics, in particular theory and inference for coalescent processes
- Topic 2: Regulatory element variation and CNV structure in the HapMap samples
- Topic 3: Statistical analysis of microarray technologies to study expression, aCGH, methylation, microRNAs, with a particular emphasis on analysis of Illumina bead-based platforms. Statistical analysis of Solexa sequencing data.
- Topic 4: Evolutionary approaches to cancer, and applications to stem cell biology. Technology for measuring methylation.
- Topic 5: Fly tracking and applications to behavioural genetics. See FlySpy
- Topic 6: Stochastic computation in the biological sciences
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| Teaching |
MPhil in Computational Biology
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