Applied Mathematics UWO

• D.Phil. Oxford, 1996
• M.Sc. McMaster, 1992
• B.A.Sc. Waterloo, 1991

Research Interests

• Theoretical population genetics
• Mathematical models of experimental evolution
• Microbial evolution

Representative Publications

• van Passel, M.W.J., Nijveen, H. and Wahl, L.M. (2014) "Birth, death and diversification of mobile promoters in prokaryotes", Genetics, 197: 291-299.
• Sousa, A., Bourgard, C., Wahl, L.M. and Gordo, I. (2013) "Rates of transposition in Escherichia coli", Biology Letters, 9 (6): 20130838, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0838.
• Zhang, W.J., Wahl, L.M. and Yu, P. (2013) "Conditions for transient viremia in deterministic in-host models: viral blips need no exogenous trigger", SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 73 (2): 853–881.
• Gifford, D.R, de Visser, J.A.G.M. and Wahl, L.M. (2012) "Model and test in a fungus of the probability that beneficial mutations survive drift", Biology Letters, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0310.