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Alan Robert Templeton Alan Robert Templeton Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Professor of Genetics & Biomedical Engineering Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137 Washington University St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA (phone 314-935-6868; fax 314-935-4432; e-mail [email protected]) EDUCATION A.B. (Zoology) Washington University 1969 M.A. (Statistics) University of Michigan 1972 Ph.D. (Human Genetics) University of Michigan 1972 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1972-1974. Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows of the University of Michigan. 1974. Visiting Scholar, Department of Genetics, University of Hawaii. 1974-1977. Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin. 1976. Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. de Biologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. 1977-1981. Associate Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics, Washington University. 1981-present. Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics, Washington University. 1983-1987. Genetics Study Section, NIH (also served as an ad hoc reviewer several times). 1984-1992: 1996-1997. Head, Evolutionary and Population Biology Program, Washington University. 1985. Visiting Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan. 1986. Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 1986-present. Research Associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 1992. Elected Visiting Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2000. Visiting Professor, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 2001-present. Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology 2001-present. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Washington University 2002-present. Visiting Professor, Rappaport Institute, Medical School of the Technion, Israel. 2007-2010. Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel. 2009-present. Professor, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University 2010-present. Part-time Full Professor, Institute of Evolution, and Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel. RESEARCH INTERESTS Population Genetics Ecological Genetics Speciation Conservation Biology Human Evolution Molecular Quantitative Genetics of Common Diseases in Humans HONORS AND AWARDS Phi Eta Sigma, 1966. Phi Beta Kappa, 1969. Sigma Xi, Associate Member, l969; Full Member, l972. Washington University Scholarship, l965-1969. A.B. Summa Cum Laude, 1969. NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1969-1972. Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows of the University of Michigan, 1972-1974. Edward Bean Award, 1984. Awarded to the St. Louis Zoological Garden for Speke's Gazelle Management Program designed by Templeton and Read. Genetics Society of Australia Invited Oversea Speaker, 1988. Edward Bean Award, 1989. Awarded to the St. Louis Zoological Garden for the Banteng/Gaur Management Program designed by Templeton and Read. Millercomm Distinguished Speaker, 1990. University of Illinois. NMSU Distinguished Speaker, 1991. New Mexico State University. EPSCoR Distinguished Speaker, 1992. University of South Carolina. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Distinguished Speaker, 1992. Michigan State University. Award “For Outstanding Effort in the Conservation of Missouri’s Biodiversity.” Awarded jointly by the Missouri Department of Conservation and United States Forest Service, 1992. Jefferson City, Missouri. Ashby Dialogue Lecturer, 1994. University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Russell Marker Lecturer, 1994. Pennsylvania State University. Rockefeller Distinquished Lecturer, 1994. University of Arkansas. President, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1996-1997. George C. Wheeler Distinguished Lecturer, 1997. University of North Dakota. Elected Fellow of AAAS, 1997. “For fundamental contributions to both experimental and theoretical population genetics and to conservation biology.” Elected Fellow, Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1998. Brode Lecturer, 2000. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. Burroughs Wellcome Fund Innovation Award in Functional Genomics, 2000. Distinguished Israel Pollak Lecturer, 2000. Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Stigler Lecturer in Archaeology. University of Arkansas, 2001. Installed as Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology. 2001. David Murdock-Dole Lectureship and Award “In recognition of outstanding contributions in human genetic studies.” Nobelforum, Stockholm, Sweden. 2002. Genetics Society of Australia Invited Oversea Speaker, 2004. Lorene Murrow Kelly Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas, 2005 Listed in the top 1% of cited authors for journals in the Life Sciences, 2005 Fulbright-Israel Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Engineering, 2007 Listed as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in the Life Sciences worldwide, 2011. The 2011 Ecology paper on metapopulations in collared lizards was placed by the Faculty of 1000 in their library of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. EDITORSHIPS Associate Editor, "Theoretical Population Biology" 1978-1981. Editor, "Theoretical Population Biology" 1981-1990. Associate Editor, "The American Naturalist" 1980-1984, 2002–2005. Associate Editor, "Paleobiology" 1983-1985. Editorial Board, “Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution” 1991–present. Associate Editor, “Brazilian Journal of Genetics” 1991–1997. Associate Editor, “Genetics and Molecular Biology” 1998–2001. Editorial Board, “Animal Conservation” 2004–2007. Honorary Editorial Board Member, “Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online” 2005-present. Editorial Board, “Rambam (Maimonides) Medical Journal” 2008-present. Editor, Special Issue on "Cladistic Analysis and Molecular Evolution" for the “International Journal of Molecular Sciences”, 2009-2010. Associate Editor, “Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution”, 2010-present OFFICES AND MEMBERSHIPS American Association for the Advancement of Science Society for the Study of Evolution Vice President I, 1982-1983; President, 1996-1997. Genetics Society of America Member of the Education Committee of the GSA, 1986-1988. Consultant, St. Louis Zoological Garden, 1979–present. Consultant, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., 1983-1989. Consultant, Ecumenical Dioxin Task Force, 1984-1987. Genetics Study Section, NIH, Permanent member1983-1987, plus occasional ad hoc attendance. Founding member of the Society for Conservation Biology. Member, Board of Directors of SCB, 1985-1988. Trustee, the Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 1988–present. Vice President for Conservation, 1996–2000. Member, Biodiversity Task Force for the State of Missouri, 1990–1992. Member, International Evaluation Panel of Swedish Research in Systematics. Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1990. Member, UNESCO-MAB/IUBS/SCOPE Workshop on a Research Agenda for Biodiversity, 1991-1994. Consultant, Ralston Purina Company, Pet Nutrition Research Department, 1989–1992. Consultant, Genetics Research Panel for the Biosphere 2 Project, 1991. Member, Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, Department of Energy,1993. National Institutes of General Medical Sciences Council, ad hoc member. 1993. Member, Advisory Committee, Tropical Terrestrial Ecology Division of the Minority Research Center for Excellence. 1994–1998. Member, Genetic Biodiversity Maintenance Working Group for the State of Missouri. 1994–1996. Gene Scene Redesign Advisory Team, St. Louis Science Center. 1994-1996. Member, National Research Council Panel on Evolutionary Implications of Modern Species Extinction. 1995-1996. Member, National Research Council Committee on “The Human Genome Diversity Project.” 1996-1997. Member, Natural Systems Agriculture Advisory Team, The Land Institute, Salina, KS, 1997–present. Member, Advisory Committee, Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, NY, 1997. Consultant, Variagenics Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1997–2003. Member, Advisory Board, RGA/Washington University Longevity Research Foundation, 1998–1999. Chair of the NIH Advisory Group for a Proposed Initiative on Studies of Large-scale genetic variation, 2001. American Society of Naturalists, 2002-2005. Zoological Society of London, 2004–present. External Evaluator, Departments of Biology at the Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Campus and Riberão Preto Campus, 2004. Member of the Monitoring and Assessment Panel for the “Investing in Multidisciplinary University Activities (IMUA II) through NSF Hawaii EPSCoR RII.” 2006-2009. Member, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Recovery Team for the Hine's Emerald Dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana). 2006–present. Member of the Monitoring and Assessment Panel for the “Investing in Multidisciplinary University Activities (IMUA III) through NSF Hawaii EPSCoR RII.” 2010-present. RESEARCH SUPPORT NSF Grant GB-41278. "The Unit of Selection." Co-principal investigator with Dr. C. Sing. $20,000, 1974. NIH Grant GM-20903. "The Unit of Selection." Co-principal investigator with Dr. C. Sing. $50,000, 1974-1977. NSF Grant BMS74-17453. "The Evolutionary Biology of Drosophila mercatorum." $40,000, 1974-1977. Biomedical Sciences Support Grant. $5,000, 1974-1975. NSF Grant DEB76-16985. "Studies of Selection, Fitness and Speciation." $51,000, 1976-1979. NSF Grant DEB78-10455. "Selection, Fitness and Speciation." $33,340, 1978–1979. NSF Grant DEB79-08860. "Selection, Coadaptation and Speciation in Drosophila mercatorum." $51,652, 1979-1980. NIH Grant R01 GM27021. "Selection, Coadapation and Speciation in Drosophila mercatorum." $136,027, 1980-1983. Biomedical Research Support Grant. $4,600,
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