Vincent Moulton's Home Page
I am a Professor in Computational Biology at
School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia.
I am Director of the
Computational Biology Laboratory, and I was Head of School 2012-2016.
My research interests include phylogenetics, metagenomics, computational biology of RNA,
metabolic modelling, algorithms in bioinformatics, and
the study of discrete structures such as graphs and finite metric spaces.
Contact details
Prof. Vincent Moulton,
School of Computing Sciences,
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Tel: +44 1603 592607
Fax: +44 1603 593345
e-mail: v.moulton@uea.ac.uk
http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/vlm
Publications
You can find a full list of my publications
here.
You can also find the book "Basic Phylogenetic Combinatorics" that I
coauthored here
Professional services
I am Associate Editor for
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
I am also Associate Editor for the BioMed Central journal
Algorithms for Molecular Biology.
I am on the editorial board for the journal
Bioinformatics and Biology Insights.
I am on the steering committee for the annual
Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) conference.
I was on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the
Mathematical, Statistical and Computational Aspects of the New Science of Metagenomics
Programme
held at the
Isaac Newton Institute
for Mathematical Sciences in spring 2014.
I was a program chair for
WABI 2010, together with Mona Singh.
In autumn 2007, I was principal organiser for the
Phylogenetics Programme at the
Isaac Newton Institute
for Mathematical Sciences.
I have been guest editor for a special issue of
Annals of Combinatorics on
Phylogenetic Combinatorics (Volume 10(1), 2006), and
also for a special issue of
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
on Phylogenetics (Volume 6(1), 2009).
I was a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of
the
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution.
I also sat on a
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
assessment panel in 2008 for proposals
on Biological Networks, and on the
Agence Nationale de la Recherche panel in 2011 for "Bioinformatique" proposals.
I have been an External Faculty Member of the
John Innes Centre, 2009-2014.
In the years 2002-2004, I was the Associate Director
of The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University.
I have been on program committees for several conferences, including:
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Bioinformatics, 2016, 2017, 2018
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Computational Methods for Biochemical and Evolutionary Networks
(CompBioNets), 2004, 2005.
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European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015.
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EvoBIO - European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and
Data Mining in Bioinformatics 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
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German Conference on Bioinformatics,
2009.
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Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) , 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015.
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Mathematics and Informatics in Evolution and Phylogeny,
2008.
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Systems Biology Workshop, European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), 2005.
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Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.
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ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine 2011.
In addition I have been reviewer for:
Grants
You can find a list of my grants
here.
People
Some current and past
postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.
Software
Some software that I have helped to develop include QuasiDec, MIfold, VisRD, CCD, Padre and the UEA sRNA Workbench
(see Software).
In addition, some algorithms that I have helped to develop (e.g. NeighborNet and
Consensus networks) are implemented in David Bryant and Daniel Huson's
as well as in Darren Martin's
You can find a full listing of software
provided by the UEA Computational Biology Laboratory
here.
Events
Here are some events that I have been one of the main organizers for in the past:
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Mathematical Approaches to Evolutionary Trees and Networks,
February 2017, Banff, Canada.
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Phylogenetics: New data, new Phylogenetic challenges
Follow-up Meeting, June 20-24 2011.
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The Phylogenetics Programme at the Isaac Newton Institute, September 3 - December 21, 2007.
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Current Challenges and Problems in Phylogenetics, September 3-7, 2007, Cambridge.
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ESF Exploratory Workshop: New tools for biodiversity conservation through
the advancement of phylogeographic methodologies , July 4-6, 2006,
Norwich.
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Systems modeling in plants and microbes, May 5-6, 2005, Norwich.
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Phylogenetic combinatorics and applications,
July 5-9, 2004, Uppsala Sweden.
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Autumnal phylogenetics, Sept. 25-26, 2003, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Wintry phylogenetics, Nov. 27, 2002, Sundsvall, Sweden.
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Midsummer Phylogenetics, July 27, 2001, Sundsvall, Sweden.
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Recent progress in theoretical methods
for phylogenetic analysis, 2000, Sundsvall, Sweden.
I have also coorganized:
I was a local organizer for:
You can find a full listing of
Computational Biology Laboratory seminars
here.
Talks
Some places where I have given talks and/or made research visits:
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Mathematics of Evolution: Phylogenetic Trees and Networks,
National University of Singapore, 6-13 September, 2023.
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ELSA Workshop, The Microbial Ecology of Extreme Environments,
13-14 February, 2023, University of East Anglia.
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New Zealand Mathematical
Society Colloquium,
5-8 December 2022 University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Emerging Mathematical Frontiers in Molecular Evolution,
August 2022, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden.
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Phyloseminar.org April 2022, Virtual.
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SMB 2021 (mini-symposium MS11-EVOP and MS17-EVOP),
June 2021, Virtual.
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Phylomania 2020, Hobart, Australia, November 2020, Virtual.
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Auckland University, December 2019, New Zealand.
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TU-Delft, February 2019, Netherlands.
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York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis,
November 2018, York.
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Distinguishability in genealogical phylogenetic networks,
August 2018, Lorentz Center, Leiden, NL.
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University of Greifswald,
June 2018, Germany.
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Le Laboratoire Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, Inria
March 2018, Lyon, France.
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TU-Delft, February 2018, NL.
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CRM, Western Sydney University, December 2017, Australia.
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Mathematical Approaches to Evolutionary Trees and Networks,
February 2017, Banff, Canada.
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CiE 2016: Pursuit of the Universal,
June 2016, Paris.
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British Applied Mathematics Colloquium,
April 2016, Oxford.
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Mathematical Approaches to Evolutionary Trees,
September 2015, Imperial College, UK.
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The Phylogenetic Network Workshop,
July 2015, Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Evolutionary analysis beyond the gene,
November 2014, The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, UK.
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Greifswald Phylogenetics Meeting 2014,
July 2014, Alfried Krupp Kolleg, Greifswald, Germany.
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Utilizing Genealogical Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Biology: Touching the Data,
July 2014, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.
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Tropical Mathematics and its Applications,
February 2014, Warwick University, Warwick, UK.
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International Symposium on Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Biology,
August 2013, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
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Studia Stemmatologica, June 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
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Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology, June 2012, Montpellier, France.
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ALGO 2011, September, 2011, Saarbrucken, Germany.
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Bioinformatics Leipzig, April-June, 2011, Leipzig, Germany.
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Leigh 2011, February, 2011, Leigh, New Zealand.
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Biomathematics Research Centre, Jan.-Feb. 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Genomics Automation Europe, September 2010, Dublin, Ireland.
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NESCent, Aug. 2010, Durham, USA.
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Institut fur Mathematik und Informatik ,
July 2010, Greifswald, Germany.
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An International Conference on Mathematics, Evolution, and Development, PICB,
March 2010, Shanghai, China.
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Department of Computer Science,
November 2009, Aberystwyth University, UK.
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DIAMANT/EIDMA Symposium November 2009 ,
November 2009, Lunteren, Netherlands.
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Phylogenetics 2009 , Renyi Institute,
June 2009, Budapest, Hungary.
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia,
February 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
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7th Australia - New Zealand Mathematics Convention
, December 2008, University of Canterbury, NZ.
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Department of Mathematics,
November 2008, University of York, UK.
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Department of Computer Science,
November 2008, Durham University, UK.
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Mathematics and Informatics in Evolution and Phylogeny,
June 2008, Montpellier, France.
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Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models,
Dec 2007, Cambridge, UK.
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ESEB XI Congress,
August 2007, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Bioinformatics 2007,
June 2007, Umea, Sweden.
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The Annual New Zealand Phylogenetics Meeting,
February 2007, Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand.
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PICB Mini Symposium Combinatorial Problems arising in Computational Biology,
February 2007, Shanghai, China.
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First International Conference "Integrated Computational Biology,
December 2006, Gyeongju, Korea.
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Geometric Networks and Metric Space Embeddings,
November 2006, Dagstuhl, Germany.
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Computational approaches to functional and regulatory RNAs,
July 2006, Benasque, Spain.
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The Bioinformatics Laboratory, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland,
May 2006.
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The tenth Annual New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference,
February 2006, Kaikoura, New Zealand.
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Computers in Scientific Discovery III,
February 2006, Ghent, Belgium.
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia,
November 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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5th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics - WABI 2005,
October 2005, Mallorca, Spain.
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Nouveaux modeles et algorithmes pour l'Evolution, June 2005, LIRMM,
France.
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Mathematical genetics and bioinformatics group, April 2005, Oxford
University.
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Whitianga '05, February 2005, New Zealand.
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CompBioNets 2004, December 2004, Recife, Brazil.
Teaching
As well being involved in teaching in UEA's
Computing Science MSc and Undergraduate Degrees,
I have been involved in teaching
international graduate level courses including:
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Summer School on Phylogenetic Combinatorics,
August, 2013, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
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17th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology,
September, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia.
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16th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular
Epidemiology, August 29 - 3 September, 2010, Johns Hopkins, USA.
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15th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular
Epidemiology, September 7-11, 2009, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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PhD program in computational biology,
February 9-13, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
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14th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular
Epidemiology, 1-5 September, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.
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A Short Course in Phylogenetic Combinatorics, 14-25 July, 2008, Pohang, Korea.
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13th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular
Epidemiology, 10-14 September, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Phylogenetic trees and networks,
June 2007, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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12th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology,
11-15 September, 2006, Athens, Greece.
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Phylogenetic trees and networks,
Centre for Dynamical Processes and Structure Formation,
June 6-8, 2006, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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PhD program in computational biology,
November 21 - 25, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.
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11th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology,
5 September - 9 September, 2005, LNCC, Petropolis, Brazil.
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Bioinformatics, February, 2005, University of Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Mathematics and Algorithms for Bioinformatics, January, 2005, UEA.
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10th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology,
30 August - 3 September, 2004, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland.
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Mathematical Theory behind Phylogenetics, April, May, 2004,
19 April- 25 May, 2004, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center.
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Phylogenetic trees and networks,
27-29 April, 2004, Uppsala University.
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Discrete Structures for Bioinformatics I,
January, February, 2004, Uppsala University.
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Bioinformatics - Models and Algorithms,
November, December, 2003, Uppsala University.
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Introduction to Phylogenetics,
6-7 October, 2003, Tuebingen University.
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9th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology,
August 13-23, 2003, Stanford University.
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Research School Summer Course: Phylogenomics,
13-19 June, 2003, Chalmers University.
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