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Bob Griffiths

Bob GriffithsProfessor Bob Griffiths FRS
Professor of Mathematical Genetics
Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
BSc (Hons)1967, PhD 1970, University of Sydney

griff at stats.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1865 272860 (Department)
+44 (0) 1865 281246 (Direct)
+44 (0) 1865 272595 (Fax)

Research interests
Mathematical Population Genetics, particularly in modelling stochastic evolutionary processes and developing computational alogarithms for ancestral inference from samples of genes, such as the time to the ancestor of the genes.

Selected publications

  1. Griffiths, R.C. and Tavaré S. (1999). The ages of mutations in gene trees. Ann. Appl. Prob. 9, 567-590
  2. Griffiths, R. C. (2003). The frequency spectrum of a mutation, and its age, in a general diffusion model.  Theor. Popul. Biol. 64, 241-251.
  3. De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R. C. (2004). Importance sampling on coalescent histories. I. Adv. Appl. Prob. 36, 417-433
  4. Griffiths, R. C. and Lessard, S. (2005). Ewens' sampling formula and related formulae: Combinatorial proofs, extensions to variable population size and applications to ages of alleles. Theor. Popul. Biol. 68,167-177.
  5. Griffiths, R. C. (2006). Coalescent lineage distributions. Adv. Appl. Prob. 38, 405-429

Biographical Sketch
1970 - 1973 Lecturer in Statistics, Maquarie University, Australia
1973 - 1979 Lecturer in Statistics, Monash University, Australia
1979 - 1988 Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Monash University
1989 - 1998 Reader in Statistics, Monash University
1998 - present University Lecturer, University of Oxford

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