About

This is Bastien Boussau’s website.

I am a CNRS researcher in Lyon, in the Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive.

My research focuses on evolutionary genomics: how do genomes and genes evolve? In particular, I focus on two main areas:

• the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. This can involve gene tree-species tree models, or just reconstructing trees from sequence alignments
• associations between genomes and phenotypes. in a comparative framework, across species, I’m interested in finding areas of the genome that underlie differences among species.

To investigate these two questions, I develop probabilistic models and statistical inference methods. These can rely on Maximum Likelihood, Bayseian inference, or deep learning.