Andrew G. Clark (born 1954) is an American population geneticist. He is currently Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator at Cornell University.[1][2] He is the current head of the Graduate Computation Biology field.[3] He is also co-director of Cornell's Center for Comparative and Population Genomics and a member of a working group for the National Human Genome Research Institute.[4][1]

Andrew G. Clark
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Alma mater
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsPopulation genetics
InstitutionsCornell University
Doctoral studentsEmmanouil Dermitzakis

Career

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Clark received a Bachelor of Science from Brown University in 1976, followed by a Ph.D. in population genetics from Stanford University in 1980.[2] He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and the University of Aarhus, before joining the faculty of Penn State University's Department of Biology.[2] Since 2002, he has been a professor at Cornell University.

He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.[2] Clark's laboratory group researches genetic variation and adaptation using both human data and the laboratory model Drosophila melanogaster.

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Andrew Clark". Cornell University. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Clark Lab Website". Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Individual Not Found". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
  4. ^ "Home". genome.gov.
  5. ^ "Andrew Clark elected to National Academy of Sciences". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  6. ^ "Andrew G. Clark". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  7. ^ "Andrew G. Clark". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
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