Rui Borges

About me

I am a lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews and a member of the Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology group. I am fascinated by the evolution of genomic sequences, and my work involves developing theoretical models of sequence evolution that aim to reconcile the population- and species-level processes through which species continuously emerge and diverge. My research also includes developing computational and statistical methods to detect molecular signatures of evolutionary significance from large-scale genomic datasets, which are now commonplace in molecular studies.

Interests:

• Population genetics
• Phylogenetics
• Stochastic processes
• Bayesian inference
• Bioinformatics

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