Updated March 11, 2019 Bruce Spencer Weir 1 Contact Information Address: Department of Biostatistics University of Washington Box 359461 Seattle, WA 98195-9461 Phone: Phone: +1 (206) 221-7947 email: [email protected] http://www.biostat.washington.edu 2 Education B.Sc.(HONS) with First Class Honors in Mathematics, 1965 University of Canterbury, New Zealand Ph.D. in Statistics,withminor in Genetics, 1968 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Postdoctoral Postgraduate Research Geneticist, 1969 University of California, Davis, CA 1 3 Professional Positions 1970–76 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Senior Lecturer 1970–75, Reader 1976, Department of Mathematics 1976–05 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Associate Professor 1976–81, Professor 1981–92, Department of Statistics William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Genetics 1992–2005 Coordinator, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, 1999–2005 Director, Bioinformatics Research Center, 2000–2005 2005– University of Auckland, New Zealand Adjunct Professor of Bioinformatics, 2005–2008 Adjunct Professor of Statistics, 2008–2015 Honorary Professor of Statistics, 2016– 2006– University of Washington, Seattle, WA Professor, Department of Biostatistics, 2006– Chair, Department of Biostatistics, 2006-2014 Adjunct Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, 2006– Director, Genetics Analysis Center, 2015– Director, Institute of Public Health Genetics, Director of Graduate Program in Public Health Genetics, 2015– 2006– Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Joint Member, Division of Public Health Sciences 2 4 Honors and Awards 1961 New Zealand University Entrance Scholarship 1965 Cook Memorial Prize for Mathematics, University of Canterbury 1965 Fulbright Travel Grant 1968 Sigma Xi membership 1981 Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Research, NC State University 1983 Guggenheim Fellowship (at Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh) 1990 United States Department of Agriculture Superior Service Award for Scientific Research (Group Award) 1992 William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University 1994 D.D. Mason Award, NC State University Statistics Department 1996 Osborne Memorial Lecture, University of Edinburgh 1996 Samuels Memorial Lecture, Purdue University 1998 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1998 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1999 Fellow of the American Statistical Association 1999 Snedecor Lecture, Iowa State University 2001 Fisher Lecture, University of Adelaide 2003 O. Max Gardner Award, University of North Carolina System 2005 Holladay Medal for Excellence, North Carolina State University 2008 Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2014 Fulbright - Science Without Borders Distinguished Chair (at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). 2016 Award for Contributions to Teaching and Research in Quantitative Genetics, 5th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics 2016 Cockerham Lecture, North Carolina State University 2019 Genetics Society of America: Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education. 5 Professional Activities 5.1 Editorial Positions 1977–97 Associate Editor of Genetics 1979–87 Associate Editor of Theoretical Population Biology 1979–94 Contributing Editor of Current Index to Statistics 1984–89 Associate Editor of Biometrics 1990–05 Associate Editor of Journal of Heredity 1993–95 Associate Editor of American Journal of Human Genetics 1993–05 Editor of Theoretical Population Biology 1997–12 Associate Editor of Genetics Research 2000–10 Associate Editor of Genetic Epidemiology 2005–08 Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association 2012–22 Editorial Board of Journal of Forensic Sciences 3 5.2 Professional Society Memberships American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Fellow) American Society of Human Genetics American Statistical Association (Fellow) Biometric Society Genetics Society of America International Society for Forensic Genetics New Zealand Statistics Association Society for the Study of Evolution 5.3 Professional Service 1979–83 Member of Genetics Study Section, NIH 1984–86 Member Regional Advisory Board, Biometric Society, ENAR 1987 Secretary, 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Genetics, Raleigh, NC 1991–95 Member Genetic Basis of Disease Review Committee (Training Grant Reviews), NIGMS 1993 Vice Chair, Gordon Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Biotechnology 1995 Chair, Gordon Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Biotechnology 1994–95 Defense Science Board Task Force on Use of DNA for Ancient Remains 1996-98 Council member, American Genetic Association 1998–00 Research and Development Working Group, Natl. Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence 1999 Chair, 4th International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Raleigh, NC 2000–04 Scientific Advisory Board, Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, Oxford 2000–02 Scientific Advisory Board, Paradigm Genetics 2000–04 Member of Genome Study Section, NIH 2002–05 Board of Scientific Counselors, National Toxicology Program 2002–05 Treasurer, Genetics Society of America 2003–08 External Advisory Board, New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications 2007 Program Co-Chair, 3rd International Conference on Quantitative Genetics, Hangzhou, China 2008 Program Cttee, 7th International Conf. on Forensic Inference and Statistics, Lausanne 2008– External Advisory Committee, Virtual Institute on Statistical Genetics, New Zealand 2008– Technical Advisory Committee, Western Alaskan Salmon Stock Identification Program 2011 Chair, 8th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics, Seattle, WA 2011– Bioinformatics Research Advisory Group, National Marrow Donor Program 2011– Strategic Science Advisory Panel, Environmental and Scientific Research, New Zealand 2012 Program Cttee, 4th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics, Edinburgh, UK 2012– Y-chromosome Working Group, Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods 2012– American Statistical Association Advisory Committee on Forensic Science 2013 Organizing Committee: “Impact of Large-Scale Genomic Data on Statistical and Quantitative Genetics” Conference, University of Washington. 2014– Member, Biology/DNA Scientific Area Committee within the Organization of Scientific Area Committees, NIJ/NIST. 2016,2018 Grant Review Panel, National Institute of Justice. 4 6 Bibliography 6.1 Refereed Research Publications 1. Weir BS. 1965. Mixed self and sib mating. New Zealand Mathematics Magazine 2:78–89. 2. Cockerham CC, Weir BS. 1968. Sib mating with two linked loci. Genetics 60:629–640. [PMCID: PMC1212066] 3. Weir BS, Cockerham CC. 1969a. Pedigree mating with two linked loci. Genetics 61:923–940. [PMCID: PMC1212252] 4. Weir BS, Cockerham CC. 1969b. Group inbreeding with two linked loci. Genetics 63:711–742. [PMCID: PMC1212379] 5. Brown AHD, Weir BS, Marshall DR. 1970. Optimum family size for the estimation of het- erozygosity in plant populations. Heredity 25:233–239. 6. Weir BS. 1970. Equilibria under inbreeding and selection. Genetics 65:371–378. [PMCID: PMC1212451] 7. Weir BS. 1971. Two locus inbreeding functions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 30:423–425. 8. Allard RW, Kahler AL, Weir BS. 1972. The effect of selection on esterase allozymes in a barley population. Genetics 72:489–503. [PMCID: PMC1212847] 9. Weir BS, Allard RW, Kahler AL. 1972. Analysis of complex allozyme polymorphisms in a barley population. Genetics 72:505–523. [PMCID: PMC1212848] 10. Weir BS. 1972. An undergraduate programme in biomathematics. New Zealand Mathematics Magazine 9:152–167. 11. Cockerham CC, Weir BS. 1973. Descent measures for two loci with some applications. The- oretical Population Biology 4:300–330. 12. Weir BS, Cockerham CC. 1973. Mixed self and random mating at two loci. Genetical Research 21:247–262. 13. Weir BS, Cockerham CC. 1974. Behavior of pairs of loci in finite monoecious populations. Theoretical Population Biology 6:323–354. 14. Weir BS, Allard RW, Kahler AL. 1974. Further analysis of complex allozyme polymorphisms in a barley population. Genetics 78:911–919. [PMCID: PMC1224564] 15. Weir BS. 1974. Linkage in population genetics. New Zealand Statistician 9:35–40. 16. Ross MD, Weir BS. 1975. Maintenance of male sterility in plant populations. III. Mixed selfing and random mating. Heredity 35:21–29. 17. Brown AHD, Marshall DR, Weir BS. 1975. Population differentiation under the charge state model. Genetics 81:739–748. [PMCID: PMC1213431] 18. Ross MD, Weir BS. 1976. Maintenance of males and females in hermaphrodite populations and the evolution of dioecy. Evolution 30:425–441. 5 19. Weir BS, Brown AHD, Marshall DR. 1976. Testing for selective neutrality of electrophoreti- cally detectable protein polymorphisms. Genetics 84:639–659. [PMCID: PMC1213600] 20. Cockerham CC, Weir BS. 1977. Quadratic analyses of reciprocal crosses. Biometrics 33:187– 203. 21. Choy SC, Weir BS. 1977. Two-locus inbreeding measures for recurrent selection. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 49:63–77. 22. Cockerham CC, Weir BS. 1977. Digenic descent measures for finite populations. Genetical Research 30:121–147. 23. Weir BS, Brook RJ. 1977. PSI for a large service course. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies 12:176–181. 24. Weir BS, Cockerham CC. 1978. Testing hypotheses about linkage disequilibrium with multiple alleles. Genetics 88:633–642. [PMCID: PMC1224605 25. Choy SC, Weir BS. 1978. Exact inbreeding coefficients in populations with overlapping gen- erations. Genetics 89:591–614. [PMCID: PMC1213856]