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Richard Neher

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Contact details:

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
tel.: +1-805-893-7339
fax.: +1-805-893-2431

email: neher _at_ kitp.ucsb.edu

Selected Publications:

Recombination rate and selection strength in HIV intra-patient evolution.
R.A. Neher and T. Leitner
PLoS Computational Biology, in press. Preprint available at arxiv.org/abs/0912.2536.

Rate of Adaptation in Large Sexual Populations.
R.A. Neher, B.I. Shraiman, and D.S. Fisher
Genetics, ahead-of-print (2009).

Competition between recombination and epistasis can cause a transition from allele to genotype selection.
R.A. Neher and B.I. Shraiman,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, vol. 106 pp. 6866-6871, (2009).

Blind source separation techniques for the decomposition of multiply labeled fluorescence images.
R.A. Neher, M. Mitkovski, F. Kirchhoff, E. Neher, F.J. Theis and A. Zeug
Biophysical Journal, vol 96, pp. 3791-3800, (2009)

Topological estimation of percolation thresholds.
R.A. Neher, K. Mecke, and H. Wagner.
JSTAT, P01011 (2008), see also: Supplementary

Dynamics of force-induced DNA slippage.
R.A. Neher and U. Gerland.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 198102 (2004)

Software

We have developed an ImageJ plug-in to analyse fluorescence microscopy images with non-negative matrix factorization algorithms. PoissonNMF is available for download here.