Alex Mantzaris

Research Student

Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
JCMB, The King's Buildings,
EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK.

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 7536
Fax: +44 (0)131 650 4901

Talks

Presentation of work done with my supervisor Dirk Husmeier
Avoiding false positives in the Felsenstein zone at MASAMB March 2008 in Glasgow [slides]
Presentation of work done with my supervisor Dirk Husmeier,
Detecting Recombination in the Felsenstein Zone at the MACAULY institute in Aberdeen for a PhD competition among Scottish agricultural institutes [slides]
Presentation of work done with my supervisor Dirk Husmeier
Addressing potential fallacies in Bayesian methods for detecting recombination at MASAMB April 2009 in London [slides]
Presentation of work done with my supervisor Dirk Husmeier
Distinguishing regional from within-codon rate heterogeneity in DNA sequence alignments at PRIB(pattern recognition in bioinformatics, Spetember 2009 in Sheffield [slides]

Addressing the Shortcomings of Three Recent Bayesian Methods for Detecting Interspecific Recombination in DNA Sequence Alignments. Statistical Applications to Genetics and Molecular Biology (SAGMB) (2008) [link to online journal page]
Distinguishing regional from within-codon rate heterogeneity in DNA sequence alignments. Mantzaris A.V. And Husmeier D. (2009) "Distinguishing Region from Within-Codon Rate Heterogeneity in DNA Sequence Alignments" In: V. Kadirkamanathan et al. (Eds.): Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.187-198 [link to publishers page] (here I was awarded with the prize for the best student paper)