Susko, Edward   Professor   PhD - University of Waterloo   MSc - University of British Columbia   BA - University of Windsor   Mail: Address   e-mail:susko@mathstat.dal.ca   Office: Chase Room 115   Tel: (902)494-8865   Fax: (902)494-5130   Homepage:  Dr. Edward Susko's Website

• Research Interests:
  

      My main current research focus is in statistical issues in molecular evolution.
  I also have interests in the analysis of EST and micro-array data, mixture models
  and data mining/machine learning.

• Selected Recent Publications:

  • Susko, E., Inagaki, Y. and Roger A.J. (2004). On inconsistency of the
    neighbour joining method and least squares estimation when distances are
    incorrectly specified. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29:1629--1642.
    
    
  • Inagaki, Y., Susko, E., Fast, N.M. and Roger, A.J. (2004). Covarion shifts
    cause a long branch attraction artifact that unites microsporidia and
    archaebacteria in EF-1alpha phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution,
    21:1340--1349.
    
    
  • Susko, E. and Roger, A.J. (2004). Estimating and comparing the rates of
    gene discovery and expressed sequence tag (EST) frequencies in EST surveys.
    Bioinformatics, 20:2279--2287.
    
    
  • Susko, E., Field, C., Blouin, C. and Roger, A.J. (2003). Estimation of
    rates-across-sites distributions in phylogenetic substitution models. Systematic
    Biology, 52:594--603.
    
    
  • Inagaki, Y., Blouin, C., Susko, E. and Roger A.J. (2003). Assessing functional
    divergence of EF-1alpha and its paralogues in eukaryotes and archaebacteria.
    Nucleic Acids Research, 31:4227--4237.
    
    
    

• Research Group: Statistical Genetics

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