Expertise:
- Spatial stochastic processes, theoretical ecology, role of space in
community dynamics, theoretical population genetics, coalescent theory,
statistical genomics
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Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990
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Associate Vice President/Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and
Technology Transfer
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Claudia Neuhauser is the Associate Vice President/Associate Vice Chancellor
for Research and Technology Transfer in the Division of Research. Prior to
coming to the University of Houston, Dr. Neuhauser served as Associate Vice
President for Research and Director of Research Computing at the University
of Minnesota. As Director of Research Computing, she directed the
University of Minnesota Informatics Institute (UMII), the Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute (MSI), and U Spatial.
She was the founding Director of Graduate Studies of the Biomedical
Informatics and Computational Biology graduate program, a joint program
between the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Rochester campuses in
partnership with Mayo Clinic, IBM, and the National Marrow Donor Program.
She led this program from 2008 to 2017.
Between 2008 and 2013, she served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
at the newly established campus of the University of Minnesota Rochester
(UMR).
Prior to moving to UMR, she was Professor and Head and Director of Graduate
Studies in the department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the
University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
In addition, she held faculty positions at the University of Southern
California, the University of Wisconsin Madison, and the University of
California Davis.
Dr. Neuhauser received her Diplom in mathematics from the Universität
Heidelberg (Germany) in 1988, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell
University in 1990. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, a
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). At the University
of Minnesota, she was named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor
and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor. She has served on
numerous national committees and boards, including the Board on
Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications of the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Dr. Neuhauser's research is at the interface of mathematics and biology,
and focuses on the analysis of ecological and evolutionary models and the
development of statistical methods in biomedical applications.
She has supervised as adviser or co-adviser 11 Ph.D. and 12 M.S. theses.
Her interest in furthering the quantitative training of life science
undergraduate students has resulted in a widely used calculus book
(Calculus for Biology and Medicine), which is now in its fourth edition.
Selected Publications: (see
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A. Clark, C. Neuhauser.
2018.
Harnessing Uncertainty to Approximate Mechanistic
Models of Interspecific Interactions.
Theoretical Population Biology. Available online:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2018.05.002
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K. VanderWaal, R. Morrison, C. Neuhauser, C.
Vilalta, A. Perez.
2017.
Translating big data into smart data for veterinary
epidemiology.
Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 17 July 2017.
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Shulan Tian; Huihuang Yan; Claudia Neuhauser;
Susan Slager.
2016.
A framework for accurate variant discovery in
highly divergent regions.
BMC Genomic 17:703.
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S.E.P. Smith, S.C. Neier, B.K. Reed, R.R, Davis,
D. Gil, J.P, Sinnwell, J.E. Eckel-Passow, G.F. Sciallis, C.N. Wieland,
R.R. Torgerson, Z.Chen, J.McClusky, S.R. Burrows, C. Neuhauser, A.G.
Schrum.
2016.
Multiplex matrix network analysis of physiologic
protein complexes in the human TCR signalosome.
Science Signaling 439 rs7 (DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aad7279)
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J.D. Cooper, C. Neuhauser, T. Dean, B.
Kerr.
2015.
Tipping the mutation-selection balance: Limited
migration increases the frequency of deleterious mutants.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 380: 123-133.
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K. Cradic, S. Murphy, R. Sikkink, C. Neuhauser, G.
Vasmatzis, S. Grebe.
2015.
Clinical Validation of a Haplotyping Method with
Next Generation Sequencing.
Clinical Chemistry 61:2, 430-431.
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Cradic, Kendall; Murphy, Stephen; Drucker, Travis;
Sikkink, Robert; Eberhardt, Norman; Neuhauser, Claudia; Vasmatzis,
George; Grebe, Stefan.
2014.
A simple method for gene phasing using mate pair
sequencing.
BMC Medical Genetics 15:19
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N. Beckman, C. Neuhauser, H.C.
Muller-Landau.
2012.
The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal
and distance- and density-dependent natural enemy attack on seedling
recruitment patterns.
Journal of Ecology 100(4): 862-873.
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N. Lanchier, C. Neuhauser.
2007.
Voter model and biased voter model in heterogeneous
environment.
Journal of Applied Probability 44: 770-787.
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C. Neuhauser, D.A. Andow, G. Heimpel, G. May, R.
Shaw, S. Wagenius.
2003.
Community Genetics - A Synthesis of Community
Ecology and Population Genetics.
Ecology 84: 545-558.
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P. Chesson, S. Pacala, C. Neuhauser.
2002.
Environmental niches and ecosystem
functioning.
In Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Pp. 213-245. Princeton.
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C. Neuhauser, S. Pacala.
1999.
An explicitly spatial version of the Lotka-Volterra
model with interspecific competition.
Annals of Applied Probability 9:1226-1259
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C. Neuhauser, S. Krone.
1997.
The Genealogy of Samples in Models with
Selection.
Genetics 145:519-534.
Last updated: Fall 2018