Selected invited talks, keynotes, and visiting fellowships. See my publications and projects for related work.

Upcoming

  • 2026, Invited Speaker, MIG Symposium, Melbourne Integrative Genomics, University of Melbourne, Australia (4 December 2026) — "PhyloSpec: machine-readable model specification for Bayesian phylogenomics and agent-ready science"

Selected past talks and visiting fellowships

  • 2026, Invited Speaker, ISBA World Meeting (International Society for Bayesian Analysis), Nagoya, Japan (1 July 2026) — "Tractable time tree distributions for Bayesian phylogenetic inference", in the symposium "Of Trees, Time and Uncertainty: New Frontiers in Bayesian Phylogenetics"
  • 2025, Invited Speaker (Opening Seminar), MaxEnt 2025 (44th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering), Auckland, NZ (15 December 2025) — "Bayesian phylogenetics to cancer genomics"
  • 2025, Keynote Speaker, Genetics Society of Australasia Conference, Auckland, NZ (July 2025) — "Bayesian phylogenetics and population genetics: from models to cancer genomics"
  • 2023, Invited Lecture, Taming the BEAST, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada (August 2023)
  • 2019, Invited Lecture, Taming the BEAST, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada (August 2019)
  • 2019, Invited Lecturer, Taming the BEAST, Sydney, Australia (February 2019)
  • 2018, Plenary Speaker, Australian Statistics Conference, Melbourne, Australia (August 2018)
  • 2018, Invited Lecturer, Taming the BEAST, Oberaegeri, Switzerland (June 2018)
  • 2017, Invited Speaker, Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting, Queenstown, NZ (4-6 September 2017)
  • 2017, Invited Lecturer, Taming the BEAST, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK (24-28 July 2017)
  • 2017, Invited Speaker, Summer Internship on Indigenous Genomics (SING Aotearoa), Auckland, NZ (22-27 January 2017)
  • 2016, Invited Lecturer, Taming the BEAST, Engelberg, Switzerland (26 June - 1 July 2016)
  • 2016, Faculty, Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic (24 January - 6 February 2016)
  • 2015, Invited Speaker, Dating species divergences using rocks and clocks, The Royal Society, London, UK (9-10 November 2015)
  • 2015, Faculty, Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic (25 January - 7 February 2015)
  • 2014, Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK (3-11 April 2014)
  • 2014, Invited Speaker, 16th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Oxford, UK (31 March - 2 April 2014)
  • 2013, Speaker, 5th Joint Conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society and Ecological Society of Australia, Auckland, NZ (24-29 November 2013)
  • 2013, Invited Speaker, Symposium on Current Advances and Challenges in Practical Phylogenomics, Evolution, Snowbird, Utah, USA (21-25 June 2013)
  • 2013, Invited Speaker, Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France (27-31 May 2013)
  • 2012, Invited Lecturer, 1st New Zealand Phylogenetics Workshop, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ (7-10 February 2012)
  • 2011, Invited Lecturer, Workshop on Phylogenetics for Infectious Diseases, National University of Singapore (10-14 October 2011)
  • 2011, Faculty, Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Colorado State University, CO, USA (24 July - 6 August 2011)
  • 2011, Invited Speaker, Phylogenetics: New Data, New Challenges, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK (20-24 June 2011)
  • 2010, Faculty, 23rd Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, MA, USA (25 July - 6 August 2010)
  • 2010, Invited Speaker, Adelaide Phylogenetics Workshop, Adelaide, Australia (6-9 April 2010)
  • 2009, Invited Lecturer, 15th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Rotterdam, Netherlands (7-11 September 2009)
  • 2009, Faculty, 22nd Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, MA, USA (26 July - 7 August 2009)
  • 2009, Invited Lecture, "Developing Darwin's Computer", Peter Gibbons Memorial Lecture Series, University of Auckland, NZ (27 May 2009)
  • 2009, Invited Speaker, Adelaide Phylogenetics Workshop, Adelaide, Australia (14-17 April 2009)
  • 2008, Faculty, 21st Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, MA, USA (25 July - 8 August 2008)
  • 2008, Invited Lecturer, Workshop on Bayesian Phylogenetics, Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary (25-29 June 2008)
  • 2008, Invited Lecture, National Evolutionary Synthesis Centre (NESCent), Durham, NC, USA (2 May 2008)
  • 2008, Invited Speaker, 15th International Workshop on HIV Dynamics and Evolution, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (27-30 April 2008)
  • 2008, Invited Lecture, Phylogenetics Workshop, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (27 April 2008)
  • 2008, Invited Lecturer, Virus Phylogenetics & Bioinformatics Workshop, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1-4 April 2008)
  • 2007, Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
  • 2007, Faculty, 20th Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, MA, USA
  • 2007, Invited Lecturer, 13th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007, Invited Lecturer, Molecular Dates and Rates Workshop, University of Adelaide, Australia (18-21 January 2007)
  • 2006, Invited Lecturer, 12th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Athens, Greece
  • 2006, Invited Lecturer, Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, Australia
  • 2006, Invited Lecturer, DIMACS Workshop on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Pathogens, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (21-22 June 2006)
  • 2006, Invited Lecturer, DIMACS Tutorial on Phylogenetic Trees and Rapidly Evolving Pathogens, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (19-20 June 2006)
  • 2005, Invited Lecturer, 11th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Petropolis, Brazil
  • 2004, Invited Lecture, Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • 2004, Invited Lecture, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, UK
  • 2004, Invited Lecture, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
  • 2003, Invited Lecture, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, UK
  • 2002, Invited Speaker, Royal Statistical Society meeting on "Inferences from DNA data: population histories, evolutionary processes and forensic match probabilities"