Prof. Dr. Dr. Murray Cox

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsGeneral Genetics, Functional Genome Research,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Keywordstheoretical genetics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, Island Southeast Asia, population genomics
Honours and awards

2022: Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand

2022: Hector Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand

2017: Te Rangi Hiroa Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand

Current contact address

CountryNew Zealand
CityPalmerston North
InstitutionMassey University
InstituteSchool of Fundamental Sciences
Homepagehttps://www.genomicus.com

Host during sponsorship

Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2017

Program(s)

2016Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2018N. Brucato, V. Fernandes, S. Mazières, P. Kusuma, M.P. Cox, J.W. Ng’ang’a, M. Omar, M.-C. Simeone-Senelle, C. Frassati, F. Alshamali, B. Fin, A. Boland, J.-F. Deleuze, M. Stoneking, A. Adelaar, A. Crowther, N. Boivin, L. Pereira, P. Bailly, J. Chiaroni, F.-X. Ricaut: The Comoros show the earliest Austronesian gene flow into the Swahili corridor. In: American Journal of Human Genetics, 2018, 58-68
2017J.S. Lansing, C. Abundo, G.S. Jacobs, E.G. Guillot, S. Thurner, S.S. Downey, L.Y. Chew, T. Bhattacharya, N.N. Chung, H. Sudoyo, M.P. Cox: Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2017, 12910-12915