Jack O'Brien

MalariaGEN Consortium (statistician). “Next-generation sequencing reveals the world-wide population structure of Plasmodium falciparum .” Nature. forthcoming

Vladimir Minin, John D. O’Brien, Arseni Seregin. 2011. “Imputation estimators partially correct for model misspecification.” Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. (10):1201-1218.

John D. O’Brien, Vladimir N. Minin, and Marc A. Suchard. 2009. “Learning to count: robust estimates for labeled distances between molecular sequences”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, (26):801-814.

John D. O’Brien, Zhen-Su She, and Marc A Suchard. 2008. “Dating the time of viral subtype divergence.” BMC Evolutionary Biology, (8).

Zhu Yang, John D. OBrien (joint first author), Xiao-Bin Zheng, Huai-Qu Zhu, Zhen-Su She. 2007. “Tree and rate estimation by local evaluation of heterochronous nucleotide data.” Bioinformatics, (23):169-176;

Genetic Epidemiology of Malaria Conference June 2012
• “Testing pipelines with crosses.” (Invited)

International Biogeographic Society Conference September 2011 
• “Towards a reconstruction of the historical migration patterns of P. falciparum through its organelles.” (Contributed)

Bristol Complexity Seminar March 2010
• “Simultaneously estimating mircrobial ecology and evolution.” (Invited)

Oxford Mathematical Biology Seminar November 2009
• “The lineage model for microbial community composition.” (Invited)

Joint Statistical Meeting August 2009
• “The lineage model for microbial community composition.” (Contributed)

Stochastic Processes and their Applications General Meeting August 2009
• “A more general model of the evolution of influenza subtypes.” (Contributed)

Gordon Research Conference in Applied Microbiology July 2009
• “A Bayesian model for metagenomic population structure.” (Contributed)

University of Bath June 2009
• “Phylogenetics and GMRFs to model conformational changes.” (Invited)

European Bioinformatics Institute October 2008
• “Robust counting for unusual distances.” (Invited)

• Royal Society:  International Travel Grant, 2009
• University of California: Chancellor’s Fellowship, 2003-2004 and 2007-2008
• National Institutes of Health:  NIH Systems and Integrative Biology Fellowship, 2004-2007
• Fulbright Scholar, Norway, 2002-2003
• Pomona College, Department of Mathematics: Honors Thesis, 2002