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
- Gascuel O. and Steel M. (2020) A Darwinian Uncertainty Principle. Systematic Biology 69(3): 521-529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz054.
- Sevillya G., Doerr D., Lerner Y., Stoye J., Steel M., Snir S. and Thorne J. (2020) Horizontal Gene Transfer Phylogenetics: A Random Walk Approach. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(5): 1470-1479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz302.
- Steel M. (2020) : A unifying framework for modelling evolutionary trees. Theoretical population biology 133: 38-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2019.07.002.
- Steel M., Hordijk W. and Kauffman SA. (2020) Dynamics of a birth–death process based on combinatorial innovation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110187.
- Steel M., Xavier J. and Huson D. (2020) The structure of autocatalytic networks, with application to early biochemistry. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.18.158139.