Andrew Shedlock
College of Charleston

Phone: 843.460.9897
E-mail: shedlockam@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://shedlocklab.jimdo.com
Education
Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington
M.S., 1992, University of Washington
B.S., 1987, Cornell University
Research Interests
- Comparative evolutionary genomics; impacts of mobile DNA and non-coding RNA on eukaryotic genome structure and transcriptome function. Computational biology. Phylogeny, ecology and population genetics of marine vertebrates.
Current research projects
- Annotation, assembly and evolutionary synthesis of DNA repeats for NIH-sponsored amniote genome projects
- Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral vertebrate genome structure
- RNA-seq of tissue-specific gene expression in marine vertebrates
- de novo and reference-based transcriptome assembly of marine vertebrates
- Conservation genetics and molecular ecology of legally protected and commercially important marine species
Publications
- Shaffer, H. B, P. Minx, D. E. Warren, A. M. Shedlock, R. C. Thomson, N. Valenzuela, J. Abrahamian, C. T. Amemiya, et al. 2013. The Western Painted Turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. Genome Biology 14:R28 doi:10.1186/gb-2013-14-3-r28.
- Alfoldi, J., F. DiPalma, M. Grabherr, C. Williams, L. Kong, E. Mauceli, P. Russell., C. Lowe, R. Glor, J. D. Jaffe, D. Ray, A. M. Shedlock, et al. 2011. The green anole lizard genome: the first reptilian genome and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. Nature 477:587-591.
- Shedlock, A. M., C. W. Botka, S. Zhao, J. Shetty,T. Zhang, J. S. Liu, P. J. Deschavanne, and S. V. Edwards. 2007. Phylogenomics of non-avian reptiles and the structure of the ancestral amniote genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104:2767-2772.
- Organ, C. L., A. M. Shedlock, A. Meade, M. Pagel, and S. V. Edwards. 2007. Origin of avian genome size and structure in nonavian dinosaurs. Nature 446:180-184.
- Shedlock, A. M., K. Takahashi, and N. Okada. 2004. SINEs of speciation: tracking lineages with retroposons. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 19(10): 545-553.
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