Paul Higgs
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
The Origins Institute
Canada
Biography
His Brief CV includes: From 2002 : Professor in Biophysics at McMaster (Joint appointment between Physics and Biochemistry departments), 1995-2002 : Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, 1992-1995 : Royal Society Sorby Research Fellow at the Dept of Physics, University of Sheffield, UK,, 1990-1992 : Post-doc at the Service de Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay, France, 1989-1990: Post-doc at the Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, Strasbourg, France, 1986-1989 : PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.
Research Interest
Evolution of Bacterial Genomes and Horizontal Gene Transfer, The RNA World and the Origin of Life and Codon Usage, Translational Efficiency and the Dynamics of Ribosomes
Publications
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B Drossel, PG Higgs, AJ McKane, The influence of predator–prey population dynamics on the long-term evolution of food web structure, Journal of Theoretical Biology 208 (1), 91-107.
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PG Higgs,RNA secondary structure: physical and computational aspects,Quarterly reviews of biophysics 33 (3), 199-253.
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PG Higgs, JF Joanny, Theory of polyampholyte solutions, The Journal of chemical physics 94 (2), 1543-1554.
