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Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, PhD
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Bioinformatics, Statistical Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, Eco-Evo researcher, PhD from Queen Mary University of London, Plant enthusiast and nature lover | he/him
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Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, PhD @muthubioinfo.bsky.social · May 8
One of ecology and evolution ISH books that I recently read is "Improbable Destinies by Jonanthan Losos". Worth the time to read it, if you haven't. Has examples on Lizards, sticklebacks, guppies.
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Mario dos Reis @mariodosreis.bsky.social · May 6
Frustrated that MCMCtree does not have complex substitution models? The IQ-tree team has now developed IQ2MC, an interface for seamless integration of IQ-tree's substitution models with MCMCtree's fast Bayesian pipeline for clock dating. Read the preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
IQ2MC: A New Framework to Infer Phylogenetic Time Trees Using IQ-TREE 3 and MCMCTree with Mixture Models
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Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, PhD @muthubioinfo.bsky.social · Mar 20
Thanks to my PhD supervisor Mario dos Reis @mariodosreis.bsky.social and Lucas Freitas
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Muthukumaran Panchaksaram, PhD @muthubioinfo.bsky.social · Mar 20
Happy to share that my PhD paper published in Systematic Biology. My paper explores the #Asymptotictheory of Bayesian rate model selection and explore how misspecified calibrations can affect this. Also test rate model selection with large #Phylogenomes

Link below:
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Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates
Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br
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Nature @nature.com · Jan 26
More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers

https://go.nature.com/3Ej9RxA
More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
Nature - Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.
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Mario dos Reis @mariodosreis.bsky.social · Jan 6
A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab:

One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan)

And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)
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