John Huelsenbeck - LBBE seminar - "Resurrecting the TKF91 model: Understanding language change under an event-based model of change"

John Huelsenbeck, who is currently in residence at the Collegium and is being hosted by the LBBE, will present his research project, 'Resurrecting the TKF91 model: Understanding language change under an event-based model of change', at the next LBBE seminar.

John Huelsenbeck, a native Southern Californian, studied paleontology as an undergraduate, receiving his B.A. in paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He went on to study Geology at the University of Texas, Austin, but became interested in molecular evolution and, specifically, in the phylogeny problem — how can one estimate the relationships among a group of species? He graduated with a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1995. After tenure track positions at the University of Rochester and the University of California, San Diego, he started his current position at the University of California, Berkeley, as a professor in 2006. He is a charter member of the Center of Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics at UCB.

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