Curriculum Vitae
General Information
Full Name | Bruce Rannala |
Date of Birth | 10th March 1964 |
Languages | English |
Education
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1995-98
Postdoc
University of California Berkeley
- Integrative Biology
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Supervisor
- Population Genetics, Montgomery Slatkin
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1995
PhD
Yale University
- Biological Sciences
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Supervisors
- Biology, Gunter Wagner
- Statistics, John Hartigan
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1991
MSc
University of Toronto
- Zoology
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1989
BSc (Hon)
University of British Columbia
- Zoology
Experience
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2004-
Professor
Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis
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2013-2016
Chair
Graduate Group in Biostatistics, University of California Davis
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2006-2008
Associate Director of Bioinformatics
Genome Center, University of California Davis
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2000-2004
Assistant/Associate Professor
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta
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1998 - 2000
Assistant Professor
Department of Evolution and Ecology, SUNY Stony Brook
Honors and Awards
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2001
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Peter Lougheed Award
- Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar
- Canadian Genetic Diseases Network Scholar
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2002
- Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Visiting Professor
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1997
- Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
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2006
- Visiting Fellow, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK
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2007
- Guest Professor, Center for Computational Molecular Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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2009
- Miller Professor, University of California Berkeley
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2013
- Guest Professor, Center for Computational Molecular Evolution, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Beijing, China
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2016
- Guest Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Academic Interests
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Phylogenetics
- Bayesian phylogenetic inference
- Multispecies coalescent
- Species delimitation
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Population Genomics
- Migration rate inference
- Recombination rate inference
- Hybrid inference
Open Source Projects
Other Interests
- Keelboat and dinghy sailing, sea kayak touring, analogue photography, classical guitar.