Research statement

Here is a sanitized version of the research statement that I wrote for my 2024–2025 Chateaubriand Fellowship application.

Publications

Teo B., Bastide P., Ané C. 2024. Leveraging graphical model techniques to study evolution on phylogenetic networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (in press). 10.48550/arXiv.2405.09327

Teo B., Rose J., Bastide P., Ané C. 2023. Accounting for Within-Species Variation in Continuous Trait Evolution on a Phylogenetic Network. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 2:1–29. 10.18061/bssb.v2i3.8977

Tang S., Lee T.S., Li M., Zhang Y., Xu Y., Liu F., Teo B., Jiang H. 2018. Complex pattern selectivity in macaque primary visual cortex revealed by large-scale two-photon imaging. Current Biology. 28:38–48. 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.039

Talks

Leveraging graphical model techniques to study evolution on phylogenetic networks. 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Montreal, Canada. July 2024

Belief propagation for continuous trait evolution on phylogenetic networks. UW-Madison SGSA Student Seminar. Madison, WI. Nov 2022

Accounting for Within-Species Variation in Continuous Trait Evolution on a Phylogenetic Network. Evolution conference. Cleveland, OH. June 2022

Workshops

Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics. ICERM. Providence, RI. Fall 2024

Software

Contributor to: PhyloGaussianBeliefProp.jl, PhyloNetworks.jl

Honors and Awards

Mayr Symposium, Finalist. 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. July 2024.

SRGC Conference Presentation Award. UW-Madison Graduate School. Summer 2024.

Statistics Poster Competition, 2nd place. CMU Undergraduate Research Symposium. May 2017.