Andrew G. Clark
American biologist
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Andrew Galen 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 | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
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| Awards | National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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| Fields | Population genetics |
| Workplaces | Cornell University |
Doctoral students | Emmanouil Dermitzakis |
Career
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.
Honors
- Elected member, National Academy of Sciences[5][6]
- Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016[7]
