Basanta Khakurel

Hello!

Welcome to my website. My name is Basanta Khakurel.

I am from Kathmandu, Nepal. I moved to Hammond, Louisiana on Fall 2017 for my Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Southeastern Louisiana University. I worked with Dr. April Wright on eastern Pine snakes for my Bachelor’s Thesis. By that time I had already started enjoying working in the Wright Lab so I decided to stay there for my Master’s.

For my Master’s thesis, I worked on using morphological data to infer phylogenetic tree using Bayesian methods. I performed experiments on testing the effect of morphological state space in inferring phylogenies. I also tested a novel model that allowed for different stationary frequencies using posterior predictive approaches. My thesis can be found here.

I am currently working with Dr. Sebastian Hoehna in LMU-Munich, Germany. Here, I will be working on more robust models for inferring phylogenetic trees morphological data.

This website is actively under construction. If you find any typos please feel free to email me. Thank you!