Stochastic Models in Cell Biology, Genetics, and Evolution

We are an informal group within the Department of Statistics at Rice University. 

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Research Areas

• Branching models in cell biology
• Coalescent models in genetics
• Estimation of RNA secondary structures
• Analysis of artificial evolution experiments
• Molecular evolution of DNA-repeat loci
• Evolution of proteins / Statistics of the evolutionary trace
• Amino acid substitution matrices for compositionally biased bacterial genomes

Heidenreich-2002

People 

• Susan Abramski
• Adam Bobrowski
• Ranajit Chakraborty
• George E. Fox
• Krzysztof Cyran
• Rudy Guerra
• Marek Kimmel
• J. Patrick King
• Tomasz Lipniacki
• Peter Olofsson
• Pawel Paszek
• Andrzej Polanski
• Alex Renwick
• Janet L. Siefert
• Chad A. Shaw
• Heidi M. Spratt
• Michael D. Swartz
• James R. Thompson

Publications

• Marek Kimmel
• Peter Olofsson
• Andrzej Polanski
• Leslea Davison
• Shane Pankratz

Data

• Microsatellite distributions based on GDB
• Artificial evolution data and phylogenies

Software

• DNA sequence entropies
• Simulation of the SMM
• Estimation of Dynamics of Multiple Gene Expression Based on Singular Value Decomposition
• Distributions of Times to Coalescence under Time-Dependent Population Size

Biomathematical Seminar

Chaired jointly by Marek Kimmel and William Fitzgibbon, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston. Seminar meets on alternate Fridays. See schedule below for details.

• Spring 2003-Spring 2004
• Fall 2002
• Spring 2002
• Fall 2001
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2000
• Spring 2000
• Fall 1999
• Summer 1999
• Spring 1999
• Fall 1998
• Spring 1998
• Fall 1997

Journal Club

A forum for discussion of current papers of interest. Meets on alternate Fridays. See schedule below for links to papers and other details.

• Schedule and links to papers

Courses

• Stochastic Models in Molecular Evolution and Genetics
• Model Building STAT300