'Lassoing' a tree: Phylogenetic theory for sparse patterns of taxon coverage

Mike Steel directs the Biomathematics Research Centre, and is Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department of University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the deputy director (2009-), and a founding principal investigator of the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. He is also an elected fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and is an Associate Editor (2009-) of IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Computational Biology and Evolutionary Bioinformatics.