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Email

yaoban@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Lecturer,statistics/Statistical Genomics
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
Massey University
ORCID

0000-0002-8425-8775

Dr Yao-ban Chan

Senior Lecturer,statistics/Statistical Genomics
School of Mathematics and Statistics

42 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Author response of: The effect of gene tree dependence on summary methods for species tree inference. Round#1
    DOI: 10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100860.ar1
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Approximate Bayesian computation for Markovian binary trees in phylogenetics
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112246
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The effect of gene tree dependence on summary methods for species tree inference
    DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.694
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A paradoxical population structure of var DBLα types in Africa
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012813
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Estimating evolutionary and demographic parameters via ARG-derived IBD
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011537
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Demographic and Evolutionary Inferences From Large, Whole-Genome Datasets
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Demographic and Evolutionary Inferences From Large, Whole-Genome Datasets
Yao-ban Chan

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    A Probabilistic Algorithm for Gene–Species Reconciliation with Segmental Duplications
    DOI: 10.1177/15578666251392595
  • 2024

    Conference Proceedings

    An Efficient Algorithm for the Reconciliation of a Gene Network and Species Tree
    DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2024.3
  • 2024

    Journal article

    The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution
    DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syae007
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Unravelling var complexity: Relationship between DBLα types and var genes in Plasmodium falciparum.
    DOI: 10.3389/fpara.2022.1006341
  • 2022

    Journal article

    The large-sample asymptotic behaviour of quartet-based summary methods for species tree inference
    DOI: 10.1007/s00285-022-01786-4

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