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Benjamin Redelings
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
email: bredelin@ucla.edu
URL:
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~bredelin/
Education:
| present |
PhD Candidate, Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Advisor: Marc A. Suchard.
- Topic: Joint Bayesian Estimation of Alignment and Phylogeny
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| 2001 |
MS in Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 1999 |
BS in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- Minors: Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.
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Research Interests
Protein evolution, Model-Based Phylogenetic Reconstruction,
Modelling insertion and deletion,
Evolution of New Protein Functions, Bayesian Statistics, Markov Chain Monte
Carlo (MCMC).
Employment
| 1999-2001 |
Research Assistant, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
- Implemented and helped develop stochastic numerical
models of the frequency of recessive disease genes over time
in an exponentially increasing population.
- Supervisor: Kenneth Lange
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| Summers 1995-1997 |
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UCSD
- Designed and implemented software in Fortran 77 and 90/95
to find solutions and solution surfaces for non-linear
equations of complex variables.
- Supervisor: Marlene Rosenberg
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Computing Skills
Awards/Scholarships
| 2004-2005 |
NIH Systems and Integrative Biology Fellowship. |
| 2001-2003 |
NSF Bioinformatics IGERT Fellowship. |
| 1995-1999 |
U.C. Regents Scholarship |
| 1995-1999 |
National Merit Scholarship |
| 1994 |
Early Admission Honors (EAH) to UCSD |
Publications
- Redelings BD and Suchard MA,
Joint Bayesian Estimation of Alignment and Phylogeny.
Systematic Biology, 54(3):401-418, 2005
- Lange K and Redelings BD,
Disease Gene Dynamics in Population Isolates,
Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, 59:119-138, 2002
Posters and Presentations
- Redelings BD and Suchard MA, Joint Bayesian Estimation of Alignment and Phylogeny, poster presented at the Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), San Diego, CA, March 2004
- Redelings BD and Suchard MA, Incorporating Indel Information into Phylogeny Estimation for Rapidly Emerging Diseases, contributed talk at the International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB), Auckland, New Zealand, November 2004
- Redelings BD and Suchard MA, Resolving Phylogenies of Rapidly Evolving Pathognes with Indel Information, contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2005
- Redelings BD and Suchard MA, Incorporating Indel Information into Phylogeny Estimation for Rapidly Emerging Diseases, contributed poster at Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Pittsburgh, Philedelphia, September 2005
Selected Course Work
- Mathematical: Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, Ordinary Differential Equations, Differential Geometry
- Statistical: Statistical Theory, Theoretical and Applied Genetic Modeling, Applied Regression
- Biological: Molecular Biology/Genetics, Modelling
Infectious Diseases, Protein Chemistry, Bioinformatics and
Genomics, Molecular Evolution