User:Lindsay V. Clark

Research and Personal Info
I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Genetics Graduate Group at UC Davis, and a member of the Jasieniuk lab in the Department of Plant Sciences. My dissertation research is on the evolution of invasiveness in blackberry (Rubus), particularly relating to hybridization and asexual reproduction. I have also written some software in R for the analysis of polyploid data. In the summer of 2011 I plan to start my postdoctoral work with Erik Sacks at the University of Illinois, studying the population genetics of Miscanthus and other bioenergy grasses.

I graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004, having majored in Genetics, Cell & Developmental Biology and minored in Chemistry. From June 2002 to June 2004 I did my undergraduate thesis research in Thomas Jack's lab, where I worked on developing knockout mutants for a gene family putatively involved in floral development in Arabidopsis.

From November 2004 - July 2006 I worked at the Grape Genetics Research Unit in Geneva, NY. Under the direction of Amanda Garris, I worked on gene cloning and QTL mapping towards an understanding of light detection and winter dormancy in grapevine.



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Academia.edu profile

[[Media:lvclark_CV_2011_January30.pdf|Curriculum Vitae]]

Publications

 * Lindsay V. Clark and Marie Jasieniuk (2011) "POLYSAT: an R package for polyploid microsatellite analysis." Molecular Ecology Resources 11(3):562-566.  DOI:  10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.02985.x
 * Amanda Garris, Lindsay Clark, Chris Owens, Steven McKay, James Luby, Kathy Mathiason, and Anne Fennell (2009) "Mapping of Photoperiod-Induced Growth Cessation in the Wild Grape Vitis riparia Michx." Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 134:261-272.

Software
polysat: tools for polyploid microsatellite analysis

Awards

 * Plant Sciences Departmental Research Assistantship
 * Jastro-Shields Research Grant
 * Department of Plant Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award
 * California Weed Science Society Scholarship

Presentations

 * "Polyploid data analysis, and how to gently transition from software user to software developer" for UC Davis Ecological Genetics grad course, February 28, 2011 [[Media:LVC_PHR242_110228.pdf | PDF]]
 * “Hybridization of native and invasive blackberries in California” at UC Davis Weed Day, July 17, 2008

Posters

 * "Microsatellites distinguish sexual vs. apomictic reproduction in spontaneous Rubus hybrids" at Plant and Animal Genome XIX, January 15-19, 2011. [[Media:LVCpag2011.pdf | PDF]]
 * "Hybridization Between Native And Introduced Rubus In California And The Pacific Northwest" at Plant and Animal Genome XVIII, January 9-13, 2010. [[Media:LVCpag2010.pdf | PDF]]
 * “Hybridization between invasive and native blackberries (Rubus) in California” at California Invasive Plant Council Symposium, October 2-4, 2008.

Teaching experience

 * Associate Instructor, Plant Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, Summer 2009
 * Guest lecturer, Ecological Genetics, UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group, Winter 2011
 * Teaching assistant, Principles of Genetics Laboratory, UC Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Winter 2010
 * Teaching assistant, Genes and Gene Expression, UC Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Fall 2009, Winter 2011
 * Teaching assistant, Human Heredity, UC Davis Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Spring 2007, Spring 2009
 * Teaching assistant, Plant Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, Winter 2009
 * Undergraduate teaching assistant, Molecular Biology Lab, Dartmouth College Department of Biological Sciences, Summer 2003

Protocols

 * Jasieniuk:Converting_codominant_to_dominant_data
 * Jasieniuk:Implementation_of_a_method_to_calculate_microsatellite_genotype_distance_in_polyploids