Phylogenies form the backbone of our understanding of evolutionary biology. Our group works to develop new methods to improve how phylogenies are estimated and interpreted. We have a number of potential projects including:

1. Developing new models of molecular evolution, particularly in bacteria and viruses

2. Evaluating models of molecular evolution

4. New methods to estimate and interpret phylogenomic concordance and discordance

5. Interpreting the output of Bayesian phylogenetic analyses 

Requirements

Some experience in programming is required (any language is fine), as well as a willingness to learn either Python or R.