Current Address:

   Institute of Evolutionary Biology
   King's Buildings
   W. Mains Rd
   University of Edinburgh
   Edinburgh, Scotland

   From Aug 1, 2010:

   IST Austria
   Am Campus 1
   Klosterneuburg, Austria
Jonathan P. Bollback (Asst. Prof - PI)

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Short Bio

I was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, U.S.A in 1971. I attended the State University of New York, College at Purchase for three years working towards a Bachelors degree in the Environmental Chemistry. In the fall of 1993 I transferred to the University of Maryland, College Park where I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1995, specializing in Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology.

After completing my undergraduate studies I continued with graduate studies at Maryland in the Department of Zoology and at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Laboratory of Molecular Systematics. Between 1995-1998 I was a Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian.

In the fall of 1998, I began my Ph.D. work on experimental evolution and statistical phylogenetics with John Huelsenbeck (now at UC Berkeley) at the University of Rochester, New York. I earned my Master of Science degree in 2000 in Evolutionary Genetics and then my Ph.D. in October of 2004.

After completing my Ph.D. I moved to the University of Copenhagen, Denmark to work with Rasmus Nielsen (now at UC Berkeley) on a number of problems in statistical genetics. I worked in Denmark from the autumn of 2004 until the winter of 2008. I then moved from Copenhagen to the University of Edinburgh, Scotland to work with Andrew Leigh-Brown and Andrew Rambaut on the evolutionary dynamics of influenza.

On August 1, 2010 I will be moving to IST Austria.


Education (Degrees Awarded)

B.Sc., Biology
August, 1995
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Advisor: Gerald Borgia


M.Sc., Evolutionary Genetics
December, 2000
University of Rochester, USA
Advisor: John Huelsenbeck


Ph. D., Evolutionary Genetics
October, 2004
University of Rochester, USA
Advisor: John Huelsenbeck
Thesis title: Experimental bacteriophage evolution and theoretical systematics


Post-doctoral/Fellow Positions

Nov, 2004 to Jan, 2008
Department of Biology, Evolutionary Biology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Advisor: Rasmus Nielsen


Feb, 2008 to Jan, 2010
School of Biological Sciences
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
University of Edinburgh
Advisor: Andrew Rambaut and Andy Leigh Brown


Feb, 2010 to July, 2010
IST Austria Fellow
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
University of Edinburgh


Faculty Positions

Aug 1, 2010
Assistant Professor
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)
Am Campus 1
A – 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria


Curriculum vitae

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Scientific Impact of Peer-reviewed Publications (Updated 30/11/2009 from ISI)

Total number of citations: 1208
Mean citations per publication: 71.06
Median citations per publication: 28
h-Index: 10


Publications

Bollback, J. P. and John P. Huelsenbeck. (2009) Parallel genetic evolution within and among bacteriophage species of varying degrees of divergence. Genetics 181: 225–234.
Bollback, J. P., T. L. York, R. Nielsen. (2008) Estimation of 2Nes from temporal allele frequency data. Genetics 179: 497–502.
Petersen, L., J. P. Bollback, M. Dimmic, M. Hubisz, R. Nielsen. (2007) Genes under positive selection in Escherichia coli. Genome Research 17:1336-1343.
Bollback, J. P. and John P. Huelsenbeck. (2007) Clonal interference is alleviated by high mutation rates in large populations. Mol. Biol. and Evol. 24(6):1397–1406.
Binladen, J., M. T. P. Gilbert, J. P. Bollback, F. Panitz, C. Bendixen, R. Nielsen, E. Willerslev. (2007) The use of coded PCR primers enables high-throughput sequencing of multiple homolog amplification products by 454 parallel sequencing. PLoS ONE. 2(2): e197.
Freyhult, E., J. P. Bollback, and Paul P. Gardner. (2007) Exploring genomic dark matter: a critical assessment of the performance of homology search methods on non-coding RNA. Genome Research 17(1):117-125.
Bollback, J. P., P. P. Gardner, and R. Nielsen. (2007) Estimating the history of mutations on a phylogeny. In "Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction" (Liberles, D. Ed.) Oxford University Press, UK. 31 May 2007.
Reynolds, S. M., K. Dryer, J. P. Bollback, J. A. C. Uy, G. L. Patricelli, T. Robson, G. Borgia, and M. J. Braun (2007) Behavioral paternity predicts genetic paternity in satin bowerbirds, a species with a non-resource-based mating system. The Auk. 124(3):857-867.
Bollback, J. P. (2006) SIMMAP: Stochastic character mapping of discrete traits on phylogenies. BMC Bioinformatics 7:88.
Conn, J. E., J. H. Vineis, J. P. Bollback, D. Y. Onyabe, R. C. Wilkerson and M. M. Povoa. (2006) Population structure of the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi in a malaria-endemic region of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 74(5): 798-806.
Betancourt, A. J. and J. P. Bollback. (2006) The mutational landscape model in experimental evolution. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development. 16:618-623.
Bollback, J. P. (2005) Posterior mapping and predictive distributions. In "Statistical methods in Molecular Evolution" (Nielsen, R. Ed.) Springer Verlag New York, Inc. New York, USA.
Harshman, J., C. J. Huddleston, J. P. Bollback, T. J. Parsons, and M. J. Braun. (2003) True and false gavials: A nuclear gene phylogeny of Crocodylia. Systematic Biology 52(3): 386-402.

Huelsenbeck, J. P., R. Nielsen, J. P. Bollback. (2003) Stochastic mapping of morphological characters. Sys. Biol. 52(2):131-158.
Bollback, J. P. (2002) Bayesian model adequacy and choice in phylogenetics. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19 (7): 1171-1180.
Huelsenbeck, J. P., J. P. Bollback, and A. Levine. (2002) Inferring the root of a phylogenetic tree. Sys. Biol. 51 (1): 32-43.
Huelsenbeck, J. P., F. Ronquist, R. Nielsen, and J. P. Bollback. (2001) Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology. Science. 294: 2310-2314.
Conn, J. E., J. P. Bollback, D. Y. Onyabe, T. N. Robinson, R. C. Wilkerson, and M. M. Povoa. (2001) Isolation of polymorphic microsatellite markers from the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi. Mol. Ecol. Notes. 1 (4): 223-225.
Huelsenbeck, J. P., and J. P. Bollback. (2001) Empirical and hierarchical Bayesian estimation of ancestral states. Sys. Biol. 50 (3): 351-366.
Huelsenbeck, J. P. and J. P. Bollback. (2001) Application of the likelihood function in phylogenetic analysis. In "Handbook of Statistical Genetics" (Balding. D.J., Bishop, M., and Cannings, C., Eds.) Chapter 15, pp. 415-439. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, USA.
Bollback, J. P., and John P. Huelsenbeck. (2001) Phylogeny, genome evolution, and host specificity of single-stranded RNA bacteriophage (Family Leviviridae). J. Mol. Evol. 52: 117-128.
Dexter B., J. Utter, S. Ferguson, J. P. Bollback, B. Moss, T. W. Nalli. (1994) ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN A SUBURBAN STREAM - ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AT STATE-UNIVERSITY-OF-NEW-YORK PURCHASE ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 207: 124-CHED, Part 1.


Last Updated: 30 Nov 2009