Prof Vincent Moulton
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Additional Contacts
- Alternative email address: vincent.moulton@cmp.uea.ac.uk
- Personal Homepage
- Publications
- Computational Biology Laboratory
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.
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
Key Responsibilities
Director of Research for the School
Director of the Computational Biology Laboratory
