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== Research and Personal Info ==
[[Image:LindsayClarkface2.jpg|thumb|left|Lindsay V. Clark]]
[[Image:LindsayClarkface.jpg|thumb|left|Lindsay V. Clark]]
'''Research Specialist, Plant Population Genetics'''
I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the [[UC Davis Genetics Graduate Group|Genetics Graduate Group at UC Davis]], and a member of the [[Jasieniuk]] lab in the Department of Plant Sciences. My research interest is in the evolution of invasiveness in plants through hybridization. My study organism is Himalayan blackberry, an introduced species from Europe is highly invasive on the West Coast and is known to hybridize with native and other introduced species.
'''Department of Crop Sciences'''
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 [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tjack/ Thomas Jack's lab], where I worked on developing knockout mutants for a gene family putatively involved in floral development in ''Arabidopsis''.
'''University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'''
From November 2004 - July 2006 I worked at the [http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/site_main.htm?modecode=19-10-10-00 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.
== Research and Personal Info ==
In my spare time I enjoy playing trombone, knitting, and spending time outdoors. I am a native of Southern Maine, and am having a good time in California but am not entirely seduced by the weather yet.
I am a postdoc studying the genetic diversity and population structure of ''Miscanthus'', a perennial grass being developed as a bioenergy crop, in the lab of [http://cropsci.illinois.edu/directory/esacks Dr. Erik Sacks] at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
[[Image:Prickleyfoe.JPG|400 px|right|Surrounded by my prickly nemesis.]]
This wiki page used to be my personal homepage. Please visit my new website at https://sites.google.com/site/lindsayvclarkgenetics/.
== Publications ==
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 (in press).
==Awards==
*Plant Sciences Departmental Research Assistantship
*Jastro-Shields Research Grant
*Department of Plant Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award
==Presentations==
“Hybridization of native and invasive blackberries in California” at UC Davis Weed Day, July 17, 2008
==Posters==
== Software ==
*“Hybridization between invasive and native blackberries (Rubus) in California” at California Invasive Plant Council Symposium, October 2-4, 2008.
'''[https://github.com/lvclark/polysat/wiki polysat]: tools for polyploid microsatellite analysis'''
*"Hybridization Between Native And Introduced Rubus In California And The Pacific Northwest" at Plant and Animal Genome XVIII, January 9-13, 2010.
==Teaching experience==
'''[https://github.com/lvclark/tagdigger tagdigger]: Search for tags in FASTQ files from GBS or RAD-seq
*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
I am a postdoc studying the genetic diversity and population structure of Miscanthus, a perennial grass being developed as a bioenergy crop, in the lab of Dr. Erik Sacks at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
