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Prof Vincent Moulton

Vincent Moulton
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Professor in Computational Biology 
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2607  
Biology 2.12C 
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Career

Vincent Moulton is Professor in Computational Biology at University of East Anglia. He completed his PhD in 1994 at Duke University, USA, after which he worked as a visiting researcher at University of Bielefeld, DE, and University of Canterbury/Massey University, NZ. In 1999 he moved to Sweden, where he was employed as Senior Lecturer at Mid Sweden University and, as of 2002, as Professor in Bioinformatics at Uppsala University. He took up his position at University of East Anglia in 2004.

Academic Background

Vincent Moulton received an MSc in mathematics from University of Washington in 1991, a PhD in mathematics from Duke University in 1994, and a Docent in mathematics from Umea University in 1999.

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Key Research Interests

Vincent Moulton is part of the Computational Biology Group

Vincent Moulton's interests include phylogenetics, computational biology of RNA, algorithms in bioinformatics, and discrete structures such as graphs and finite metric spaces.

Selected Publications

Holland, B., Conner, G., Huber, K. T. and Moulton, V., Imputing supertrees and supernetworks from quartets. Systematic Biology, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page(s) 57–67, 2007.

Spillner, S., Nguyen, B., Moulton, V., Computing phylogenetic diversity for split systems, IEEE/ACM Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page(s) 235-244, 2008.

Bryant, D. and Moulton, V., NeighborNet: An agglomerative method for the construction of phylogenetic networks. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 21, Issue 2, Page(s) 255-265, 2004.

Edvardsson, S., Gardner, P., Poole, A. M., Hendy, M., Penny, D. and Moulton, V., A search for H/ACA snoRNAs in yeast using MFE secondary structure prediction. Bioinformatics, Volume 19, Number 7, Page(s) 865-873, 2003.

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Current Research Projects and Grants

Project Title Start Date End Date Funding Body Project Members
A computational platform for the high-throughput identification of short RNA's and their targets in plants 26/2/2007 25/2/2010 BBSRC Tamas Dalmay, Vincent Moulton, David Baulcombe


Past Research Projects and Grants

Project Title Start Date End Date Funding Body Project Members
Bioinformatics tools for plant genetic resources 1/9/2007 31/8/2009 BBSRC N/A
EMBO Workshop on current challenges and proteins in phylogenetics 12/3/2007 7/9/2007 European Molecular Biology Organisation Vincent Moulton, Brent Emerson
Phylogenetic combinatorics: a mathematical theory for the analysis of phylogenetic trees and networks 1/10/2006 30/9/2009 EPSRC N/A
Workshop - New Tools for biodiversity conservation through the advancement of phylogeographic methodologies 1/6/2006 31/8/2006 European Science Foundation Vincent Moulton, Brent Emerson
Symposium on Systems Modelling in Plants and Microbes 5/5/2005 6/5/2005 EPSRC N/A

External Activities and Indicators of Esteem

  • Principal organiser of 4 month ‘Phylogenetics’ programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2007
  • Funded visiting Erskine Fellow, university of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2005
  • Funded invited speaker, Conference on Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny, Institut Henri Poincare, 2003
  • Funded Visiting Professorship, University Montpellier, 2005

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