Mike Steel

Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel

Director of Research

Jack Erskine 623

Internal Phone: 92153

Research interests are applications of discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory) and probability theory to contemporary problems in biology.

Bocharov S., Harris S., Kominek E., Mooers A. and Steel M. (2023) Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference. Systematic Biology 72(3): 575-589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac059.
Francis A. and Steel M. (2023) Labellable Phylogenetic Networks. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 85(6) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-023-01157-0.
Gumbs R., Gray CL., Böhm M., Burfield IJ., Couchman OR., Faith DP., Forest F., Hoffmann M., Isaac NJB. and Jetz W. (2023) The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. PLoS Biology 21(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001991.
Manson K. and Steel M. (2023) Spaces of Phylogenetic Diversity Indices: Combinatorial and Geometric Properties. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 85(8) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-023-01183-y.
Overwater M., Pelletier D. and Steel M. (2023) The expected loss of feature diversity (versus phylogenetic diversity) following rapid extinction at the present. Journal of Mathematical Biology 87(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-023-01988-4.

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