PATRICIA J. WITTKOPP (née Polaczyk)
1061 Natural Science Bldg.
830 N. University Ave.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Telephone: 734 / 763-1548
Fax: 734 / 763-0544
Email: wittkopp@umich.edu
Labpage: www.umich.edu/~pwlab
Research Interest: Understanding the genetic basis of development, evolution and disease, with an emphasis on the molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression
Education:
1997-2002 Ph.D. in Genetics
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Advisor: Dr. Sean Carroll
2001 North Carolina State University Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics
Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Modules
1993-1997 B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology (with highest honors and distinction)
B.S. Chemistry (with distinction)
Highest Honors in Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Advisor: Dr. Greg Gibson
Academic appointments:
2005- Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Member, Program in the Biomedical Sciences
Member, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology
Member, Center for Statistical Genetics
Trainer, NIH Genome Sciences Training Grant
Trainer, NIH Genetics Training Grant
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2002-2005 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Clark
Fellowships/Awards:
2007-2009 March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award
2006 Institutional nominee for Searle Scholar Award
2003-2006 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
2003 American Cancer Society Postdoc Fellowship (ranked 1st in section prior to withdrawl)
2003 National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)
2000 Best Poster award at the 9th Annual "Egg to Organ" Symposium
1998-2001 National Institutes of Health Genetics Training Grant
1998 Henry Vilas Fellowship
1998 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention
1997-1998 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship
1993-1997 W.R. Hotchkiss Foundation Scholarship
Presentations and Working Groups
Invited participation in international workshops, working, and discussion groups:
2008 “Organization of Biological Networks”, Workshop
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
2007 “From Statistics to Genes: Figuring out the Molecular Basis of Complex Traits”, Discussion mtg
Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Lloyd Harbor, NY)
2007 Program on “Evolution of Molecular Networks”
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, (Santa Barbara, CA)
2007-2008 “Modeling variation in gene networks”, Working group
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (Durham, NC)
2006 “Post-Genomic Comparative Physiology”, Discussion meeting
Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Banff, Canada)
Invited Seminars and conference presentations:
2008 7th Annual Genomics Symposium, NYU Genomics and Systems Biology, New York, NY
Symposium on Transcriptional Regulation and Systems Biology, East Lansing, MI
Gordon Research Conference: Molecular Evolution, Ventura, CA
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Barcelona, Spain
- Indiana University, Biology Department, Bloomington, IN
Graduate Student Invited speaker
Discussion leader: Gordon Research Conference: Ecol and Evol Funct Genomics, Newport, RI
University of Notre Dame, Biology Department, South Bend, IN
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Eastern Great Lakes Molecular Evolution meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada
University of Michigan, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan, Center for Statistical Genetics, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Chicago, IL
Wayne State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Detroit, MI
4th annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, KS
Graduate Student Invited speaker
Duke University, Evolution and Development Group, Durham, NC
Graduate student invited “Super Speaker”, 2 seminars
Genomics of Closely Related Organisms, IGERT Symposium, Tucson, AZ
2005 Gordon Research Conference: Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics, Oxford, UK
Genomes Evolving Symposium, University of California, San Diego, CA
2004 University of Michigan, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
Harvard University: Population and Evolutionary Genetics Seminar Series, Cambridge, MA
The Evolution of Gene Regulation, an IGERT Symposium, Eugene, OR
Cornell Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Annual Symposium, Ithaca, NY
Regional SDB meeting “Evolution and Development” section, Woodshole, MA
University of Rochester, Department of Biology, Rochester, NY
2002 Wayne State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Detroit, MI
Contributed Presentations: (*selected for talk)
2007 *European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala, Sweden
Gordon Research Conference: Ecol and Evol Funct Genomics, Newport, RI
*48th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Origin of Novel Features, an IGERT symposium, Bloomington, IN
*Evolution (SSE/SSB/ASN Annual meeting), Stony Brook, NY
Society of Developmental Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change, U. Chicago, IL
46th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA
2004 *Genomes and Evolution Conference, SMBE annual meeting, State College, PA
45th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC
2003 *44th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, IL
Gordon Research Conference: Ecol and Evol Functional Genomics, New London, NH
2002 The Microevolution of Development, an IGERT Symposium, Eugene, OR
2001 *Annual meeting for the Society of Developmental Biology, Seattle, WA
*42nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Washington DC
Symposium on the Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change, Chicago, IL
2000 9th Annual Symposium in the "Egg to Organ" series, St. Paul, MN
1999 Keystone Symposium: Specificity in Signal Transduction, Keystone, CO
1997 38th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, IL
Session Chair or Discussion Leader:
2008 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA
“Evolution and Quantitative Genetics”
2007 Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lloyd Harbor, NY
“From Statistics to Genes: Figuring out the Molecular Basis of Complex Traits”,
Gordon Research Conference: Ecol and Evol Funct Genomics, Newport, RI
“Transcription and Evolution”
Grant Support:
Research:
2007-2010 National Science Foundation [DEB-0640485]
“Genetic basis of pigmentation evolution in Drosophila”, P.I. ($450,000)
2007-2009 March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research award [5-FY07-181]
“The genetic basis of abnormal gene expression”, P.I. ($150,000)
2006-2007 Rackham Graduate School (University of Michigan) [G005283]
“Genomic sources of altered gene expression”, P.I. ($15,000)
2006 Whitaker II award, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, (University of Michigan), P.I. ($300)
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