Refereed Publications and Conference Proceedings:

12. Chattopadhyay S, Weissman SJ, Minin VN, Russo TA, Dykhuizen DE, Sokurenko EV. High frequency of hotspot mutations in core genes of Escherichia coli due to short-term positive selection, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106:12412-12417, 2009.
11. O'Brien JD*, Minin VN*, and Suchard MA. Learning to count: robust estimates for labeled distances between molecular sequences, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26:801-814, 2009.
* - joint first authors
10. Minin VN and Suchard MA. Fast, accurate and simulation-free stochastic mapping, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363:3985-3995, 2008.
9. Minin VN, Bloomquist EW, and Suchard MA. Smooth skyride through a rough skyline: Bayesian coalescent-based inference of population dynamics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25:1459-1471, 2008.
8. Minin VN and Suchard MA. Counting labeled transitions in continuous-time Markov models of evolution, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 56:391-412, 2008.
7. Rajaram ML, Minin VN, Suchard MA, and Dorman KS. Hot and cold: spatial fluctuation in HIV-1 recombination rates, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 707-714, 2007.
6. Minin VN, Dorman KS, Fang F, and Suchard MA. Phylogenetic mapping of recombination hot-spots in HIV via spatially smoothed change-point processes, Genetics, 175:1773-1785, 2007.
5. Fang F, Ding J, Minin VN, Suchard MA, and Dorman KS. cBrother: Relaxing parental tree assumptions for Bayesian recombination detection, Bioinformatics, 23:507-508, 2007. cBrother
4. Minin VN, Dorman KS, Fang F, and Suchard MA. Dual multiple change-point model leads to more accurate recombination detection, Bioinformatics, 21:3034-3042, 2005.
3. Abdo Z, Minin VN, Joyce P, and Sullivan J. Accounting for uncertainty in the tree topology has little effect on the decision theoretic approach to model selection in phylogeny estimation, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22:691-703, 2004.
2. Liu X, Minin V, Huang Y, Selingson D, and Horvath S. Statistical Methods for Analyzing Tissue Microarray Data, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 14:671-685, 2004.
1. Minin V, Abdo Z, Joyce P, and Sullivan J. Performance-based selection of likelihood models for phylogeny estimation, Systematic Biology, 52:674-683, 2003. DTModSel

Unrefereed Publications:

2. Fang F, Minin VN, Suchard MA, Dorman KS. A Bayesian phylogenetic model for counting recombination events, 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Bayesian Statistical Science Section, [CD-ROM].
1. Minin VN, Dorman KS, Suchard MA. Bayesian recombination identification: new models for incorporating prior information, 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Bayesian Statistical Science Section, [CD-ROM].

Conference Presentations and Posters:

Applications of Markov chain-induced counting processes in evolutionary biology and statistics
contributed talk at the 33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Berlin, Germany
July 2009.
Bayesian coalescent-based inference of population dynamics
invited talk at the Young Investigators in Population Genetics Workshop, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
October 2008
Computationally efficient posterior predictive mapping of evolutionary histories makes estimation of selection forces possible in large scale studies of viral evolution
Savage session talk at the 9th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia
July 2008
Bayesian phylogenetic mapping of recombinaton hot-spots
contributed talk at the Bayesian Phylogeny Workshop, Budapest, Hungary
June 2008
Robust estimation of genetic distances with applications to the convergent evolution problem
invited talk at the Phylogenetics Workshop, held prior to the HIV Dynamics and Evolution Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
April 2008
Simulation-free algorithms for mapping evolutionary innovations onto phylogenies
invited talk at the Microsoft Research Workshop on Computational Aspects of Biological Information, Redmond, WA
December 2007
Coalescent-based inference of population dynamics with Gaussian Markov random field temporal smoothing
contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
August 2007
Zooming into evolution with Markov chain induced counting processes
contributed talk at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA
August 2006
Testing the presence of recombination hot-spots in the HIV genome and their association with local sequence properties
poster, presented at the International Biometrics Conference, Montreal, Canada
July, 2006
Investigating an evolutionary footprint of recombination hot-spots in the HIV genome
contributed talk at SMBE Annual Meeting, Genomes, Evolution, and Bioinformatics, Tempe, AZ
May, 2006
Mapping HIV break-point hot-spots with phylogenetic recombination detection and spatial smoothing
poster, presented at the Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA
September, 2005
Mapping recombination hot-spots onto Gaussian Markov random fields
poster, presented at the Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Detroit, MI
June 2005
Bayesian recombination identification: new models and better ways of incorporating prior information
contributed talk at Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto, Canada
August 2004
Dual multiple change-point model leads to more accurate recombination detection
poster, presented at the Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, San Diego, CA
March 2004


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