University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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George Estabrook

George Estabrook

  • Professor

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    2039 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Phone: (734) 764-6219
  • Fax: (734) 763-0544
  • Email: gfe@umich.edu

Research interests

Evolution of early land plants: Develop computationally intense methods to test hypotheses of evolutionary relationships among early land plants using molecular data (with Yin-Long Qiu)

Ethnobotany: Apply ecological (as well as historical and anthropological) methods to the study of traditional agriculture in Portugal (among other places)

Super trees: Develop efficient computer algorithms to construct super trees, especially motivated by pharmacogenomics (with Davide Pisani)

Estimation of evolutionary rates: Develop computer algorithms to estimate evolutionary rates from DNA sequence, fossil, body size and thermal data; develop computationally intense methods to detect significantly different rates. (with T Dowling and G Smith)

Estimate age at death of human skeletal remains: Develop computer technology to compare observations of human skeletal remains with specimens in a large reference collection to create a computer "expert" that can estimate age at death. (with C. Risech)