Summer School on Mathematics in Biology in Medicine

September 20-24, 2004

Gil McVean

University of Oxford, UK

Biography

Gil McVean is a Royal Society Research Fellow and a lecturer in Mathematical Genetics at the University of Oxford. His research covers several areas in evolutionary biology and population genetics, combining both theoretical work and empirical analyses.

He graduated in Zoology in 1994 at the University of Oxford, obtaining his PhD in 1997 at the University of Cambridge where he worked with Professor Laurence Hurst on genomic imprinting and the evolution of the mutation rate. From 1997 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh where we worked with Professor Brian Charlesworth on inference and prediction in population genetic models of weak selection. His more recent research interests are in the analysis of recombination from population genetic data, in the relationship between linkage disequilibrium and properties of the underlying genealogy, and Bayesian methods for inferring natural selection from DNA sequence data.

Gil McVean teaches and organizes courses on population genetics and evolution. Some of his more representative publications are:

1. McVean GT, Hurst LD (1997) Evidence for a selectively favourable reduction in the mutation rate of the X chromosome. Nature