User:Lindsay V. Clark
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Energy Biosciences Institute
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research and Personal Info
I am a postdoc studying the genetic diversity and population structure of Miscanthus, a perennial grass being developed as a bioenergy crop, under Dr. Erik Sacks at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
I recently finished my Ph.D. (September 2011) in the Genetics Graduate Group at UC Davis as a member of the Jasieniuk lab in the Department of Plant Sciences. My dissertation research was 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.
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.
Contact: email
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
- Lindsay V. Clark and Marie Jasieniuk "Spontaneous hybrids between native and exotic Rubus in the Western United States produce offspring both by apomixis and by sexual recombination." Heredity (accepted).
- Lindsay V. Clark, Katherine J. Evans, and Marie Jasieniuk "Origins and distribution of invasive Rubus fruticosus L. agg. (Rosaceae) clones in the Western United States." Biological Invasions (accepted pending minor revision)
- 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
Presentations
- "Genetic diversity and population structure of Miscanthus in Japan" at the 3rd Pan American Congress on Plants and Bioenergy, Champaign, Illinois, June 17, 2012.
- "Polyploid data analysis, and how to gently transition from software user to software developer" for UC Davis Ecological Genetics grad course, February 28, 2011 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. PDF
- "Hybridization Between Native And Introduced Rubus In California And The Pacific Northwest" at Plant and Animal Genome XVIII, January 9-13, 2010. PDF
- “Hybridization between invasive and native blackberries (Rubus) in California” at California Invasive Plant Council Symposium, October 2-4, 2008.
Awards
- Plant Sciences Departmental Research Assistantship
- Jastro-Shields Research Grant
- Department of Plant Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award
- California Weed Science Society Scholarship
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
