Dr. Caoqi Fan, Jordan Cahoon, and Bryan Dinh Published a New Paper

Former QCB PhD student Dr. Caoqi Fan (top left), together with QBIO alumna Jordan Cahoon (top right) and QCB PhD student Bryan Dinh (center left) from QCB joint faculty Dr. Charleston Chiang's (bottom right) lab published a new paper, 'A likelihood-based framework for demographic inference from genealogical trees' in Nature Genetics. This paper presents a substantial advance on a classic problem in evolutionary genetics - estimating the demographic history of a population. The study is based on so-called coalescent trees, which have a long history at QCB, dating back to the work of co-founding faculty member Simon Tavaré. The work featured contributions from QCB joint faculty member Dr. Nicholas Mancuso (bottom left) and QCB faculty member Dr. Doc Edge (center right). Please read the paper here.