Priscilla Lau (@prilau.bsky.social)

Priscilla Lau

@prilau.bsky.social

Doctoral student @LMU Munich. Method development in phylogenetics, currently focusing on trait evolution.

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@prilau.bsky.social

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comAn efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck modelMacroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

Many thanks to my co-authors Bjørn @bjorntko.bsky.social, John @jclarkepaleo.bsky.social, Dirk @dirkmetzler.bsky.social, my advisor Sebastian @hoehna.bsky.social, reviewers and editors, and everyone who supported me throughout! (3/3)

Priscilla Lau

@prilau.bsky.social

30 July

Also check out the link below for a tutorial on how to use our model! revbayes.github.io/tutorials/co...

revbayes.github.ioRevBayes: State-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Models

Using tooth crown evolution in ruminants as a case study, we showed that parameter estimates improves when using a joint inference approach (in contrast to a sequential approach). This is because the continuous trait is informative to discrete character history estimates (2/3)

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Alessio Capobianco

@acapomorphic.bsky.social

4 Mar

New paper out from @hoehna.bsky.social Lab, led by the brilliant @bjorntko.bsky.social! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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Alessio Capobianco

@acapomorphic.bsky.social

15 Oct 2025

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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