Simon Ho
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., then became an Associate Researcher at Balliol College during 12 months as a postdoctoral researcher. I returned to Australia in August 2007 and took up an ARC-funded Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Australian National University in January 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. Owing 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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:: A full list of my publications can be found in my CV.
Selected Publications
- Ho SYW, and Phillips MJ (2009) Accounting for calibration uncertainty in phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary divergence times. Systematic Biology, 58: 367-380.
- Endicott P, Ho SYW, Metspalu M, and Stringer C (2009) Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24: 515-521.
- 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.