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General Information
Full Name | Iker Rivas-González |
Languages | English, Spanish, Basque, Danish |
Education
- 2023 - present
Postdoc
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Primate evolution
- 2020 - 2023
PhD
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Genome-wide analyses of primates, birds and marsupials
- Phylogenomic reconstruction, selection and recombination
- Mathematical modelling: hidden Markov models and phase-type distributions
- Data visualization
- 2018 - 2021
MSc in Bioinformatics
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Advanced phylogenomics
- Big data analysis
- Algorithmic engineering
- 2014 - 2018
BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of the Basque Country, Spain
- Protein engineering
- Metabolism
- Biotechnology
- Physiology
Experience
- 2022
Visiting PhD Student
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- John Wakeley
- David Reich and Nick Patterson
- 2020 - 2022
Teaching Assistant
Aarhus University, Denmark
- Data Science in Bioinformatics (Fall of 2020 and 2021)
- Statistical and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (Spring of 2020, 2021 and 2022)
Attended Meetings
- 2024
Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (award for best talk)
Vienna, Austria
- 2023
EPIC-DK (talk)
Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2023
SMBE Meeting (symposium organizer and poster)
Ferrara, Italy
- 2023
Phase-type distributions with a view to population genetics (talk)
Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2023
Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (talk)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
- 2022
SMBE Everywhere GS4 (talk)
Virtual
- 2022
The Biology of Genomes (talk)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
- 2022
Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (talk)
Oxford, NY
- 2022
Three Minute Thesis Competition (talk)
Aarhus, Denmark
- 2021
Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference (poster)
Aalborg, Denmark
- 2021
SMBE Meeting (poster)
Virtual
Academic Interests
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Speciation
- Phylogenetic reconstruction
- Species tree
- Selection
- Population genomics
- Incomplete lineage sorting
- Admixture
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Modeling
- Hidden Markov models
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Data Visualization
- ggplot2
- TidyTuesday