Distinguished ProfessorMike Steel
International Student Co-ordinator
Jack Erskine 623
Phone: +6433692153
Internal Phone: 92153
Qualifications & Memberships
Research Interests
Research interests are applications of discrete mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory) and probability theory to contemporary problems in biology.
Recent Publications
- Erdős PL., Semple C. and Steel M. (2019) A class of phylogenetic networks reconstructable from ancestral profiles. Mathematical Biosciences 313: 33-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2019.04.009.
- Herbst L., Li H. and Steel M. (2019) Quantifying the accuracy of ancestral state prediction in a phylogenetic tree under maximum parsimony. Journal of Mathematical Biology 78(6): 1953-1979. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01330-x.
- Hoppe A., Türpitz S. and Steel M. (2019) Species notions that combine phylogenetic trees and phenotypic partitions. Journal of Mathematical Biology 78(1-2): 117-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-018-1269-z.
- Hordijk W., Steel M. and Kauffman SA. (2019) Molecular diversity required for the formation of autocatalytic sets. Life 9(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life9010023.
- Huber KT., Moulton V. and Steel M. (2019) Phylogenetic Flexibility via Hall-Type Inequalities and Submodularity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 81(2): 598-617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-0419-1.