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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

Dr Mario Dos Reis Barros

Mario

Reader in Statistical Phylogenetics

Email: m.dosreisbarros@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5714
Room Number: 5.01, Fogg Building

Profile

Dr dos Reis studied Biology at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela (his native country).  In 2000 he moved to the UK where he did an MSc in Bioinformatics and then a PhD in Molecular Evolution at Birkbeck College, London, the later under the supervision of Prof. Lorenz Wernisch.  In 2007 he moved to the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London (now the Francis Crick Institute), to study the evolution of influenza viruses in collaboration with Dr. Alan Hay and Prof. Richard Goldstein.  In 2010 he moved to University College London to work on Bayesian statistics of the molecular clock in collaboration with Prof. Ziheng Yang. He joined the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary in 2015 where he will continue his research in molecular evolution.

Teaching

Dr dos Reis is teaching Human Genetics and Genomics at the Joint Programme with Nanchang University. 

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