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Revision as of 11:02, 16 May 2011
About Me
I am a new postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin working on the genetics of adaptation and drought tolerance with the Texas Switchgrass Collaborative (Panicum). The aims of this project are to understand the evolutionary genetic and genomic mechanisms responsible for abiotic stress tolerance in this group of grasses and to leverage this knowledge to eventually create higher yielding bioenergy crops that will require minimal water inputs. This is an important goal, as there is often a trade-off between alternative energy sources, such as biofuels, with ever diminishing water resources.
The focus of my PhD dissertation research at Duke University was directed toward understanding the genetics of adaptation and speciation across the natural landscape. To this end, I chose to study how divergent adaptation of the yellow monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus), to the coast versus inland habitat, contributes to reproductive isolation. I used a combination of QTL mapping and candidate gene strategies to determine the genetic mechanisms that underlie the divergence of morphological and life-history traits between coast and inland Mimulus guttatus. Further, I carried out reciprocal transplant experiments and population genetic analysis to demonstrate that coast and inland Mimulus are locally adapted and reproductively isolated. I also conducted a more recent reciprocal transplant experiment with near isogenic lines to test hypotheses of local adaptation and introgression between ecogeographic races. In addition, I conducted genetic analysis of flowering time under different light conditions, anthocyanin production in vegetative tissues, and ion accumulation. Finally, I was involved with multiple aspects of the Mimulus guttatus genome project.
Publications
Lowry D. B., C.S. Sheng, J.H. Willis. Five anthocyanin polymorphisms are associated with a R2R3-MYB cluster in Mimulus guttatus. Submitted
Lowry, D. B. Recent echos of old debates on stages in the formation of new species. In review
Lowry, D. B. (2010) Landscape evolutionary genomics. Biology Letters. 6: 502-504
Important Things
- My Website
- Contact Info: You can contact me at davidbryantlowry@gmail.com.
- Make sure to check out the Mimulus Community and the Texas Switchgrass Collaborative.
Field Sites
- Boonville Inland Site
- Manchester Coastal Site
- Copperopolis
- Big Creek Reserve
- Bodega Marine Lab
- Angelo Reserve
- Botanical Beach
- Gwaii Haanas
- Bamfield Marine Science Center
- Pacific Rim National Park
Population Genetic Software
- TESS
- FSTAT
- Tassel
- Arlequin
- Structure
- GenGIS
- Mark Beaumont
- Geographic distance matrix generator
- Genepop (web)
- Dyerlab (Population Graphs)
- Isolation by Distance
- Genetic Data Analysis
- Software for Populaiton Genetic Analysis
- Ian Wilson (Batwing)
- Jody Hey (SITES)
- Structurama
- DNASP
- SNAP
Abiotic Stress Websites
Bioinformatic/Statistical Software and Resources
- Phytozome
- Bonferroni Correction Calculator
- Apollo
- sim4
- BLAT
- NCBI Trace Archives
- ClustalW
- Primer 3
- Q-Value calculator
- Install MySQL on a mac
Analysis of fitness data
Other useful sites
- Blank Outline Maps that can be used to make figures.