Anastasia Ignatieva
I am a Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.
Previously, I studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh, and did my PhD on the Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme (with Jotun Hein and Paul Jenkins). I was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford for two years, at the Department of Statistics working with Simon Myers.
I work on population genetics. My research lies at the intersection of probability, statistics and computation, motivated by applications in genetics and focused on developing genealogy-based methods that help us understand aspects of evolution by analysing genomes. Specifically, I'm interested in reconstructing genealogies (from large-scale sequencing data) in the form of ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs), and coming up with methods that use these reconstructed ARGs for inference of evolutionary events and processes.
My CV.
Email: anastasia.ignatieva@glasgow.ac.uk
Office: 221 (Mathematics and Statistics building)
Publications and preprints:
Y. Wong, A. Ignatieva*, J. Koskela*, G. Gorjanc, A. W. Wohns, J. Kelleher. A general and efficient representation of ancestral recombination graphs.
[bioRxiv]
A. Ignatieva, M. Favero*, J. Koskela*, J. Sant* and S. R. Myers. The distribution of branch duration and detection of inversions in ancestral recombination graphs.
[bioRxiv]
S. H. Zhan, A. Ignatieva*, Y. Wong*, K. Eaton, B. Jeffery, D. S. Palmer, C. L. Murall, S. P. Otto and J. Kelleher. Towards pandemic-scale ancestral recombination graphs of SARS-CoV-2.
[bioRxiv]
E. Hayman, A. Ignatieva and J. Hein (2023). Recoverability of ancestral recombination graph topologies. Theoretical Population Biology, 154: 27-39.
[bioRxiv]
A. Ignatieva, J. Hein and P. A. Jenkins (2022). Ongoing recombination in SARS-CoV-2 revealed through genealogical reconstruction. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(2): msac028.
[Journal]
A. Ignatieva, R. B. Lyngsø, P. A. Jenkins and J. Hein (2021). KwARG: Parsimonious reconstruction of ancestral recombination graphs with recurrent mutation. Bioinformatics, 37(19): 3277-3284.
[Journal][GitHub]
A. Ignatieva, J. Hein and P. A. Jenkins (2020). A characterisation of the reconstructed birth-death process through time rescaling. Theoretical Population Biology, 134: 61-76.
[Journal]
A. Ignatieva, A. F. Bell and B. J. Worton (2018). Point process models for quasi-periodic volcanic earthquakes. Statistics in Volcanology, 4(2): 1-27.
* denotes equal contributionI organised the Research Students' Conference in Population Genetics, which took place at Warwick in 2021. This has become an annual event, held at Warwick in 2022 and Edinburgh in 2023.
I was awarded the Cecil King Travel Scholarship, and visited the University of California, Berkeley, in spring 2022.
I participated in the Stochastic modelling in the life sciences Junior Trimester Programme at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (University of Bonn), in summer 2022.