Bueno, tarde pero sin sueño, les dejo a continuación una entrada mensual que empieza a ser clásica en este blog, titulada Nuestro personaje del Mes.
Well this post is becoming a tradition in this blog, every month I'll post a special review of a prestigious researcher, writing down some of his/her bibliography, research areas and published papers. Hope you enjoy it. If you have comments or ideas for new researchers let me know about them.
Bueno este post lo dejo en inglés porque sé que mis "asiduos" lectores están capacitados en el idioma inglés y porque además tengo alguno que otro gringo que visita my blog.
Dr. Fredrik Ronquist
Personal data: Born 9/28/1962, married with Eva, three children born 1990 (Ebba), 1992 (Filippa) and 1995 (Axel)
Home address: 3711 Longfellow Road, Tallahassee, FL 32311, USA, (850) 878 0728
Work address: School of Computational Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, USA, voice (850) 645 1325, fax (850) 644 0098
Email: ronquist@csit.fsu.edu
Dr. Fredrik studied a PhD in Upsala University in Sweden. He studied the comparative morphology, phylogeny, and evolution of cynipoid wasps. Then he spent few years at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Then He went to Florida State University in 2003 to join the computational evolutionary biology group at the School of Computational Science.
I guess Fredrick has done many stuff related to taxonomy and systematics, but he is well know because of his efforts in computational biology and phylogenetics. He got involved in the development of parsimony methods for the study of coevolution and biogeography (DIVA and TreeFitter) and more recently Bayesian MCMC methods for phylogenetic inference (MrBayes), which is coautor with John Huelsenbeck.
Nowadays he is involved in many research projects, I'll just name few ones:
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Extending Bayesian Phylogenetics
2.-
Morphbank
3.-
HymAToL
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PCC
5.-
The Swedish Taxonomy Initiative
Also, Fredrick has been involved in teaching courses in entomology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics and comparative genomics, mostly at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. There are several lectures online available related to phylogenetics.
His current work address is School of Computational Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, where he has a lab with some students doing phylogenetic research.
Well, there are many things to say about this experienced researcher in phylogenetics, but I'm about to finish this post writing down some of his published papers, and also the
link for the website of Ronquist Lab, just in case you are interested on looking for more information about him and his projects.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
in press
Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Vårdal, H. and F. Ronquist. In press. Comparative morphology and evolution of cynipoid larvae. Zoologica Scripta.
Ronquist, F., Huelsenbeck, J. P. and T. Britton. 2004. Bayesian supertrees. In: Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P. (ed.), Phylogenetic Supertrees: Combining Information to Reveal the Tree of Life. Kluwer, Amsterdam. Proofs
2004
Ronquist, F. Bayesian inference of character evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 475-481.
Altekar, G., S. Dwarkadas, J. P. Huelsenbeck and F. Ronquist. 2004. Parallel Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics 20: 407-415.
Nylander, J., F. Ronquist, J. P. Huelsenbeck and J. L. Nieves-Aldrey. 2004. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data. Systematic Biology 53: 47-67.
Sanmartín, I. and F. Ronquist. 2004. Southern Hemisphere biogeography analyzed with event-based models: Plant versus animal patterns. Systematic Biology 53: 216-243.
2003
Ronquist, F. and U. Gärdenfors. 2003. Taxonomy and biodiversity inventories: Time to deliver. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 269-270.
Ronquist, F. and J. P. Huelsenbeck. 2003. MRBAYES 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19: 1572-1574.
Vårdal, H., Sahlén, G. and F. Ronquist. 2003. Morphology and evolution of the cynipoid egg (Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 247-260.
2002
Sanmartin, I. and F. Ronquist. 2002. New solutions to old problems: widespread taxa, redundant distributions and missing areas in event-based biogeography. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 25:75-93.
Fontal-Cazalla, F. M., Buffington, M., Nordlander, G., Liljeblad, J., Ros-Farré, P., Nieves-Aldrey, J. L., Pujade-Villar, J. and F. Ronquist. 2002. Phylogeny of the Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Cladistics 18:154-199.
Huelsenbeck, J. P. H., Larget, B., Miller, R. E. and F. Ronquist. 2002. Potential applications and pitfalls of Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Systematic Biology 51:673-688.
Rokas, A., J. A. A. Nylander, F. Ronquist and G. N. Stone. 2002. A maximum-likelihood analysis of eight molecular markers in gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae): Implications for insect phylogenetic studies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22:206-219.
Ronquist, F. 2002. Parsimony analysis of coevolving species associations. Pp. 22-64 in R. D. M. Page, ed. Tangled trees: Phylogeny, cospeciation and coevolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ms ()
2001
Huelsenbeck, J. P. & Ronquist, F. 2001. MRBAYES. Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Bioinformatics 17: 754-755.
Huelsenbeck, J. P., F. Ronquist, R. Nielsen and J. P. Bollback. 2001. Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology. Science 294: 2310-2314.
Nylin, S., K. Nyblom, F. Ronquist, N. Janz, J. Belicek, and M. Källersjö. 2001. Phylogeny of Polygonia, Nymphalis and related butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a total-evidence analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 132: 441-468.
Ronquist, F., and J. Liljeblad. 2001. Evolution of the gall wasp-host plant association. Evolution 55: 2503-2522.
Ronquist, F., and J. L. Nieves Aldrey. 2001. A new subfamily of Figitidae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 14: 483-494.
Sanmartín, I., Enghoff, H. and F. Ronquist. 2001. Patterns of animal dispersal, vicariance and diversification in the Holarctic. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73: 345-390.
2000
Zink, R. M., R. C. Blackwell-Rago, and F. Ronquist. 2000. The shifting roles of dispersal and vicariance in biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267:497-503.
Ros-Farré, P., F. Ronquist, and J. Pujade-Villar. 2000. Redescription of Acanthaegilips Ashmead, 1897, with characterization of the Anacharitinae and Aspiceratinae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 467-488.
1999
Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera (Insecta): The state of the art. Zoologica Scripta 28:3-11.
Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139-164.
Ronquist, F., A. P. Rasnitsyn, A. Roy, K. Eriksson, and M. Lindgren. 1999. Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera: A cladistic reanalysis of Rasnitsyn's (1988) data. Zoologica Scripta 28:13-50.
1998
Ronquist, F. 1998. Phylogenetic approaches in coevolution and biogeography. Zoologica Scripta 26:313-322.
Ronquist, F. 1998. Three-dimensional cost matrix optimization and maximum cospeciation. Cladistics 14:167-172.
Ronquist, F. 1998. Fast Fitch-parsimony algorithms for large data sets. Cladistics 14:387-400.
Liljeblad, J., and F. Ronquist. 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of higher-level gall wasp relationships (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Systematic Entomology 23:229-252.
1997
Ronquist, F. 1997. Dispersal-vicariance analysis: A new approach to the quantification of historical biogeography. Systematic Biology 46: 193-201.
1996
Ronquist, F. 1996. Matrix representation of trees, redundancy, and weighting. Systematic Biology 45: 247-253.
Ronquist, F. 1996. Reconstructing the history of host-parasite associations using generalised parsimony. Cladistics 11: 73-89.
Nordlander, G., Z. Liu, and F. Ronquist. 1996. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the cynipoid wasp family Ibaliidae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 21:151-166.
I guess Ronquist is our researcher of the month because he's been spent many years working on improving phylogenetic tools for analysis and for the development of software for phylogenetic research. I think MrBayes is one the outstanding tools for phylogenetic analysis, which allows us to analyse and generate hypothesis about how evolution has shaped living organisms' life on earth.
I must say, thanks Dr. Fredrick Ronquist for our efforts on this area of research: Phylogenetics.
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