The goal of this project is to use sequence data, to infer the population sizes through time in the past and we also want to find out what the migration pattern looks like in the past. The approach we take is a simulation based method on coalescent trees along the DNA sequence.

Donna Henderson, Sha (Joe) Zhu, and Gerton Lunter. Demographic inference using particle filters for continuous Markov jump processes. bioRxiv 2018