Education

BSc Zoology (Manchester); PhD Genetics (Nottingham)

Honours

Wellcome Mathematical Biology Fellowship (1992-1995)

NERC Advanced Fellowship (2003-2008)

Publications

Likelihood-Free Inference of Population Structure and Local Adaptation in a Bayesian Hierarchical Model. (2010)
Bazin, E., K. J. Dawson, and M. A. Beaumont
Genetics vol: 185 , Pages: 587 - 602

Approximate Bayesian computation in evolution and ecology (2010)
Beamont, M.A.
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics vol: 41 , Pages: 379 - 406

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Research Interests

I am a biologist by background, and I am interested in general problems of statistical inference in population genetics, evolutionary biology, and conservation genetics. Most of my work has involved Monte Carlo statistical methods. Particular areas of application that interest me include: detecting evidence of selection in the genome; modelling demographic history of populations; inference in structured populations; modelling temporally sampled genetic data; inference in agent-based models.

Research Themes

• Bayesian Modelling & Analysis
• Monte Carlo Computation
• Statistical Bioinformatics