Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Bruce Rannala
Date of Birth 10th March 1964
Languages English

Education

  • 1995-98
    Postdoc
    University of California Berkeley
  • 1995
    PhD
    Yale University
  • 1991
    MSc
    University of Toronto
    • Zoology
  • 1989
    BSc (Hon)
    University of British Columbia
    • Zoology

Experience

  • 2004-
    Professor
    Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis
  • 2013-2016
    Chair
    Graduate Group in Biostatistics, University of California Davis
  • 2006-2008
    Associate Director of Bioinformatics
    Genome Center, University of California Davis
  • 2000-2004
    Assistant/Associate Professor
    Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta
  • 1998 - 2000
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Evolution and Ecology, SUNY Stony Brook

Honors and Awards

  • 2001
    • Canadian Institutes of Health Research Peter Lougheed Award
    • Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar
    • Canadian Genetic Diseases Network Scholar
  • 2002
    • Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Visiting Professor

  • 1997
    • Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
  • 2006
    • Visiting Fellow, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK
  • 2007
    • Guest Professor, Center for Computational Molecular Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 2009
    • Miller Professor, University of California Berkeley
  • 2013
    • Guest Professor, Center for Computational Molecular Evolution, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Beijing, China
  • 2016
    • Guest Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Academic Interests

  • Phylogenetics
    • Bayesian phylogenetic inference
    • Multispecies coalescent
    • Species delimitation
  • Population Genomics
    • Migration rate inference
    • Recombination rate inference
    • Hybrid inference

Open Source Projects

  • 2007-now
    BA3
    • Program for inferring recent migration rates between populations using genetic markers (C++).
  • 2010-now
    BPP
    • Package for phylogeographic and phylogenomic inference (C).
  • 2020-now
    Sequed
    • An major mode for editing, viewing and transforming DNA sequence alignments in GNU Emacs (elisp).

Other Interests

  • Keelboat and dinghy sailing, sea kayak touring, analogue photography, classical guitar.