Professor Mark Beaumont
BSc(Manc.), PhD(Nott.)
Current positions
Professor of Statistics
School of Biological Sciences
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8076 EPSRC EP/R018561 New Approaches to Data Science
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2018 to 31/03/2023
The statistical evaluation of agent-based models of animal populations
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
31/05/2013 to 30/03/2017
RAPIER: from RADseq to population genetics and evolutionary modelling
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
01/09/2012 to 01/09/2013
Thesis supervisions
The Population Genetics and Heritability of Measures of Immune Function in Wild House Mice, Mus musculus domesticus
Supervisors
Bayesian methods for inferring selection and demographic from historical and contemporary DNA sequences
Supervisors
Sequential Methods in Approximate Bayesian Computation
Supervisors
Phylogenetic and population genetic structure of riverine Astatotilapia cichlid fishes of East Africa.
Supervisors
The Distribution of Genetic Diversity Within and Among the Strongyloides ratti Genome
Supervisors
A Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Coalescent Inference
Supervisors
Hybridisation and introgression in the Scottish wildcat
Supervisors
On the Improvements and Innovations of Monte Carlo Methods
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
31/05/2022Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics
PLoS Biology
Inferring the timing and strength of natural selection and gene migration in the evolution of chicken from ancient DNA data
Molecular Ecology Resources
On the use of genome-wide data to model and date the time of anthropogenic hybridisation
Molecular Ecology
The role of gene flow and chromosomal instability in shaping the bread wheat genome
Nature Plants
Detecting and quantifying natural selection at two linked loci from time series data of allele frequencies with forward-in-time simulations
Genetics