Nguyen Thi Minh Anh

Research Interests:

• Phylogeny reconstruction: goodness of fit and performance of phylogenetic methods.
• Phylogenetic diversity conservation.
• Gene tree reconciliation.

Short Vita

Education/Positions:

• 08.2011 - present: PostDoc at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna
• 06.2006 - 07.2011: Ph.D. student at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna
• 2001 - 2005: Bachelor in Computer Science at College of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
• 1998 - 2001: High school for gifted students in Mathematics and Informatics, University of Natural Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Degree:

• 2011: 'Ph.D.' (Dr.rer.nat) in Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  Thesis: Goodness of fit and robustness of phylogenetic methods in the light of intermittent evolution
• 2005: B.Sc. in Computer Science, National University Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
  Thesis: Studying and applying neural network to Vietnamese hand-written character recognition (in Vietnamese).

Publications

• M. Fischer, S. Klaere, M. A. T. Nguyen and A. von Haeseler On the group theoretical background of assigning stepwise mutations onto phylogenies. (preliminary version: Arxiv: 1110.3943)
  

• M. A. T. Nguyen, T. Gesell, and A. von Haeseler (2011) ImOSM: Intermittent Evolution and Robustness of Phylogenetic Methods. Mol. Biol. Evol., in press (free copy, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr220).
• M. A. T. Nguyen, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2011) MISFITS: Evaluating the goodness of fit between a phylogenetic model and an alignment. Mol. Biol. Evol., 28(1):143-152. (free copy, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq180, PMID: 20643866)

• M. A. T. Nguyen, C. V. Dinh, H. T. Ngo, and H. V. Nguyen (2005) A multiple neural network model for Vietnamese hand-written character recognition. Proceedings of the eighth national conference on information technology and communication, pp 37-46. August 2005, Hai Phong, Vietnam. (in Vietnamese).

Talks

• Cases in which parsimonious reconciliation underestimates and misinterprets gene family evolution.
  Bertinoro Computational Biology 2010, May 24-28, 2010, Bertinoro, Italy.
• Evaluating the goodness of fit between a phylogenetic model and an alignment.
  PhyloGroup 9 meeting, December 11, 2009, Hinxton, UK. (Programme pdf)

Posters

• M. A. T. Nguyen, T. Gesell, and A. von Haeseler (2011) Imbedding additional substitutions into data to study robustness of phylogenetic methods. Genome research in Austria (GEN-AU) evaluation conference, May 02-04, 2011, Vienna, Austria.
• M. A. T. Nguyen, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2010) MISFITS: Evaluating the goodness of fit between a phylogenetic model and an alignment. Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), July 4-8, 2010, Lyon, France.
• M. A. T. Nguyen, A. Fuehrer, and A. von Haeseler (2007) Cases in which parsimonious reconciliation underestimates and misinterprets gene family evolution. PhyloInformatics workshop, October 22-24, Edinburgh, UK.
• M. A. T. Nguyen, B. Q. Minh, A. von Haeseler, and S. Klaere (2007) Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The good, the bad, and the ugly in phylogenetic diversity conservation). PhyloInformatics workshop, October 22-24, Edinburgh, UK.

Software

• MISFITS: A C++ program to evaluate the goodness of fit in phylogeny inference. The program is available at the MISFITS homepage.
• ImOSM: A C++ program to Imbed model violation as One Step Mutations into phylogenetic data. This is a useful tool to study the robustness in phylogenetic inference. The program is available at the ImOSM homepage.

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