Joe Felsenstein

  Joe Felsenstein

(Genome Sciences Department page)
(Biology Department page)
Research interests
Curriculum Vitae (CV)


For my contact information and email address, see my CV.

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   Books, etc.:

Inferring Phylogenies, published by Sinauer Associates.

Known typographical errors in the book, with their corrections
Datasets used in the book, for downloading.
Reviews of the book, and some reactions to them.
Searching for phrases: find all occurrences of any phrase, by page and with some context around it!

The Bibliography of Theoretical Population Genetics (1867-1981)
Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, a textbook (as PDF, for personal use only)

  Scientific papers:

Links to published papers (some viewable freely) will be found in the publications list in my C.V.
For papers since 1990, versions will be found here, many of them being preprint versions.

  Courses: Courses I teach (in each case the most recent course web page is linked to)

  Videos: Links to videos of some lectures I have given:

At Microsoft Research in December, 2007 in a workshop on “Computational Aspects of Biological Information”, a lecture on “Reconstructing Phylogenies: How? How Well? Why?,” This being from Microsoft, it seems to play only on Internet Explorer with Media Player. And ... they have a rating on it! It is G-rated, so it is safe for children (but incomprehensible to them). If you want a clearer view of the slides, here they are as a PDF.
Systematics Association Julian Huxley Lecture, July 2008, auditorium of the Linnean Society, London. At that web page you will also find the projection slides, which can be downloadable as a PDF. This talk covers the use of threshold models for discrete 0/1 traits and use of fossil species in model-based frameworks.
Lecture at 500th Convocation of the University of Chicago, October, 2009 (the sound for Marty Kreitman's introduction breaks up, but the rest of the sound is clear). If you want a clearer view of the projection slides, here they are as a PDF. This talk argues that the separate lines of work on within-species molecular population genetics and between-species molecular evolution are now merging in a major event, a Grand Reunion.
Evening at the Genome lecture in Seattle on 28 July 2010 in the Genome Sciences Department public lecture series, on “Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam: Who do your genes come from?” Video is in two parts. For greater clarity, here is a PDF of the slides.
Phyloseminar webcast on 24 January 2011 on the subject “What poultry breeders and guinea pigs have to tell us about statistical nonmolecular phylogenetics”, in Erick Matsen's interesting series of talks by various people working on phylogenies. This froze part way through on one machine I tried it on, but could play all the way through on another -- I think it needs lots of memory.
Mary Kuhner interviews me in the Distinguished Faculty Interview Series of our department on 5 June 2012. I ran over, which I can't say surprised anyone.

  Disputation: Here are some postings by me on blogs regarding arguments by advocates of Intelligent Design or creationism:
          on the Panda's Thumb blog
          on the Skeptical Zone blog

  Silliness: The Amphioxus Song web page.
A video of me singing the Amphioxus Song (a Quicktime movie) shot by Anna Malaspinas at the 2010 annual retreat of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program of the University of California, Berkeley, which was held at the Marconi Center, Marshall, California.
A somewhat more tuneful performance at the Workshop on Molecular Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 2011, thanks to Casey Dunn.

  Cool: Some cool stuff that should be better known.

  Old: Older stuff that is less important is linked on this web page.