Edward Braun
Professor | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Edward Braun is broadly interested in the evolution of genomes and organisms.
Biography
Edward Braun is broadly interested in the evolution of genomes and organisms. Specific research interests include: Comparative genomics and molecular evolution Phylogenetics and systematics, Patterns of gene duplication and gene loss and Phylogenetic theory. His current research emphasizes the use of computational and mathematical approaches to understand evolution at various levels ranging from genes to whole organisms. His teaching foci are genetics and genomics. His graduate teaching has focused on phylogenetic comparative methods, phylogenomics and molecular evolution.
Areas of Expertise (5)
Genomics (Vertebrates, Especially Birds and Reptiles)
Genomics
Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary genetics
Vertebrates
Media Appearances (2)
Out of Australia
UF News online
2019-04-01
UF professors of biology Edward Braun and Rebecca Kimball were part of a large team led by researchers at Louisiana State University that proved all passerines originated in Australia. That sweet Carolina wren at your feeder actually has a long-lost daddy, 47 million years ago or so, in the land Down Under.
Decoding the tree of life: UF geneticist contributes to groundbreaking study of bird evolution
UF News online
2014-12-11
Edward Braun, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Florida and the UF Genetics Institute, is one of the key scientists who took part in this multi-year project that used nine supercomputers and 400 years of combined computing time to sequence 48 bird genomes representing the 10,500 living species of birds on the planet.
Articles (5)
Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications
Genome BiologyGiulio Formenti, et al.
2021-04-29
Modern sequencing technologies should make the assembly of the relatively small mitochondrial genomes an easy undertaking. However, few tools exist that address mitochondrial assembly directly.
The Roles of Protein Structure, Taxon Sampling, and Model Complexity in Phylogenomics: A Case Study Focused on Early Animal Divergences
BiophysicaAkanksha Pandey and Edward L. Braun
2021-01-25
Despite the long history of using protein sequences to infer the tree of life, the potential for different parts of protein structures to retain historical signal remains unclear. We propose that it might be possible to improve analyses of phylogenomic datasets by incorporating information about protein structure.
A phylogenomic supermatrix of Galliformes (Landfowl) reveals biased branch lengths
Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionRebecca T. Kimball, et al.
2021-03-05
Building taxon-rich phylogenies is foundational for macroevolutionary studies. One approach to improve taxon sampling beyond individual studies is to build supermatricies of publicly available data, incorporating taxa sampled across different studies and utilizing different loci. However, incorporating phylogenomic studies into supermatrices allows problem nodes to be targeted and resolved with considerable amounts of data.
Data Types and the Phylogeny of Neoaves
BirdsEdward L. Braun and Rebecca T. Kimball
2021-01-05
Some of the earliest studies using molecular data to resolve evolutionary history separated birds into three main groups: Paleognathae (ostriches and allies), Galloanseres (ducks and chickens), and Neoaves (the remaining ~95% of avian species). We have recently proposed that some of the conflicts among recent studies may be due to the type of genomic data that is analyzed (regions that code for proteins versus regions that do not).
Phylogenomics of manakins (Aves: Pipridae) using alternative locus filtering strategies based on informativeness
Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionRafael N. Leite, et al.
2020-12-28
Target capture sequencing effectively generates molecular marker arrays useful for molecular systematics. These extensive data sets are advantageous where previous studies using a few loci have failed to resolve relationships confidently. Moreover, target capture is well-suited to fragmented source DNA, allowing data collection from species that lack fresh tissues.
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