Simon Ho

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I completed a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. at the University of Sydney before reading for a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford. My doctoral research was conducted in the Ancient Biomolecules Centre in the Department of Zoology. I was a member of Linacre College during my D.Phil., but tutored in Evolution for other colleges and also demonstrated in Statistics. I remained in Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher for 12 months, also becoming an Associate Researcher at Balliol College, before returning to Australia in August 2007. I spent the remaining months of 2007 as an Honorary Researcher at the University of Sydney before taking up an ARC-funded Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Australian National University in 2008.
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Research

My research primarily concerns phylogenetic methods and their application. Much of my work has been on methods for estimating rates of molecular evolution, as well as divergence dating techniques. Due to the theoretical nature of my research, I have not focused on a specific group of organisms, but have a broad interest in evolution at the molecular level.
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Selected Publications

(A full list of publications, along with PDFs, can be found here.

  • Endicott P and Ho SYW (2008) A Bayesian evaluation of human mitochondrial substitution rates. American Journal of Human Genetics, 82: 895-902.
  • Ho SYW (2007) Calibrating molecular estimates of substitution rates and divergence times in birds. Journal of Avian Biology, 38: 409-414.
  • Ho SYW, Shapiro B, Phillips MJ, Cooper A, and Drummond AJ (2007) Evidence for time dependency of molecular rate estimates. Systematic Biology, 56: 515-522.
  • Drummond AJ, Ho SYW, Phillips MJ, and Rambaut A (2006) Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence. PLoS Biology, 4: e88.
  • Ho SYW, Phillips MJ, Cooper A, and Drummond AJ (2005) Time dependency of molecular rate estimates and systematic overestimation of recent divergence times. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 1561-1568.