Curriculum Vitae

Gregory A Wray

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Education:

: Ph.D. Duke University, 1987; B.S. College of William and Mary, 1981

Areas of Research: Evolution of gene networks and developmental mechanisms

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology, 2008 - present

: Professor, Department of Biology, 2005 - present

: Director, Center for Evolutionary Genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, 2005 - present

: Associate Professor, Department of Biology, 1999 - 2005

State University of New York at Stony Brook: Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, , 1997 - 1999

: Program Member, Graduate Program Molecular & Cellular Biology, , 1994 - 1999

: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, , 1993 - 1997

Vanderbilt University: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, , 1992 - 1993

Friday Harbor Laboratories, Department of Zoology, University of Washington

Postdoctoral Fellow, , 1990 - 1992

(supervisor: Dr. Richard Strathmann)

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Indiana University

Postdoctoral Fellow, , 1987 - 1990

(supervisor: Dr. Rudolf Raff)

Visiting Positions: Faculty, Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, 1992, 1994, 1996

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Young Investigator Award in Molecular Evolution, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, April, 1988
Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation
Graduate Traineeship, National Institutes of Health

Conferences Organized: Gordon Conference: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Functional Genomics, July, 2007; Symposium Organizer, Evolution of transcriptional regulation, August 2005; Symposium co-organizer, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, January-July 2003; Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Regulation, 2003; Evolution of cis-regulatory DNA, 2003; Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins XII, May, 1999; Evolution of Development, 1998; Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms, 1997; Major events in the evolutionary history of echinoderms, 1996; Pattern formation, 1996; Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms, 1994

Professional Service

DUS: Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biology, 2001-2005; Chair of Curriculum Committee, September 1, 2001 - August 31, 2005

PreMajor Advisor: Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Advisory Committee, 2008 - present; Primate Genomics Initiative Advisory Committee, 2008 - present; Chair, Developmental Biology Training Program, Admissions Commitee, 2007 - present; Director, DNA Sequencing Facility, 2007 - present; member, Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Task Force, 2006 - 2007

Dept Committee: Chair, Biology Computing Committee, 2007 - present; Biology Computing Committee, 2000 - 2007; committee member, Executive Committee, October 15, 2002 - June, 2006; Strategic Planning Committee, 2002 - 2005; Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003 - 2004; Co-chair, Curriculum Review Committee, September 1, 2003 - May 01, 2004; Infrastructure Committee, 2002 - 2003; Chair, Faculty Search for Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist, 2002 - 2003
Successfully recruited Paul Magwene.; committee member, Search committee for Cell/Molecular/Developmental Biologist, January 1, 2001 - May 31, 2002; Temporary Director of CEEG, Center for Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics steering committee, September-January 2002; Faculty Search Committee for two Cell/Molecular Biologist, 1999 - 2000

Univ Committee: committee member, Howard Hughes Undergraduate Training Grant Steering Committee, 2001 - 2004; Executive Committee, Mellon Writing Fellows Program, 2004 - 2006; Representative, Academic Council, 2004 - 2006; committee member, Provost's Academic Priorities Committee, September 1, 2003 - June, 2006; member, Provost's Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group, 2006 - 2007; Faculty Search Committee, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, 2004-2005; Faculty Promotion Committee, Department of Physics, Department of Physics, 2005; Faculty Search Committee, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, 2004-2005; Central Campus Planning Committee, 2005; Faculty Search Committee, Computer Science Department, 2004 - 2005; Graduate Admissions Committee, BGT Program, 2004; Chair, first year, (CB)^2 Seminar Committee, 2001 - 2003; committee member, Executive committee, Developmental Biology Training Grant, 2001 - 2003; Search Committee for Chair of (CB)^2, 2000 - 2001; Provost's Science and Engineering Working Group, 1999 - 2000

Papers Refereed: Manuscript and grant reviewing, 2007 - present
Reviewed 20 manuscripts for journals, including Science, Nature, Cell, PNAS, PLoS Biology, etc. Reviewed 7 grant proposals for NIH, NSF, ERC.; NIH Study Section (Minority Post-doc Fellowships), 2007 - present; Associate Editor, Editorial boards, January 1, 2003 - present
Active editorial duties (i.e., handling manuscripts) for 1 journal: Evolution & Development. Editorial board duties (advisory and reviewing only) for 4 additional journals: Genes, Development and Evolution; Journal of Experimental Zoology; The Quarterly Review of Biology; Invertebrate Biology.; Panelist, Grant review panel (NSF, Developmental Mechanisms), January-December 2003

NSF Reviews And Panels: Developmental Mechanisms, 2009; Reviewer of grant proposals, National Science Foundation, 1997-2001, 2003, 2009
Biological Oceanography; Cell Biology; Developmental Mechanisms; Geology and Paleontology; Neuroscience; Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology; and Systematic and Population Biology; Co-chair, NSF Workshop on Physiology and Developmental Biology, 2004; Chair, NSF Workshop on Development and Evolution, 2002; Panel Member, NSF IBN (BAC Libarary panel), 2002; committee member, NSF BAC library grant review panel, March 2002; Panelist, NSF Workshop on the Tree of Life Project, 2000; Panel Member, NSF IBN (Developmental Mechanisms), 1997-2001, 2003

Univ Services: Director, Center for Evolutionary Genomics, IGSP, 2005 - present; committee member, Steering Committee, Mellon Writing Fellows Program, 2004 - 2006; committee member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Computer Sciences, October 1, 2004

Dept Services: committee member, Infrastructure Committee, May 1, 2003 - present

Special Projects: Task Force member, Biodiversity Science and Education Initiative, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2005 - present; Member, Assembly of Delegates, Organization of Tropical Studies, Durham, NC, 2005 - present

Editorial Boards: Associate Editor and co-founder, Evolution & Development, 1999 - present; Associate Editor, Development, Genes, and Evolution., 1997 - present; Associate Editor, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1995 - present; Hypermedia Editor, Phylum Echinodermata, Tree of Life, ag.arizona.edu/ENTO/tree/phylogeny.html., April 2005; Associate Editor, Editorial boards, January 01, 2004 - undefined, 2004
Active editorial duties (handling manuscripts) for Evolution & Development. Editorial board duties (advisory and reviewing only) for 4 additional journals: Genes, Development and Evolution; Journal of Experimental Zoology; The Quarterly Review of Biology; Invertebrate Biology.; Associate Editor, Invertebrate Biology, 1997 - 2004; Associate Editor, American Naturalist, 1998 - 2003; Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Zoology, 1999 - 2002; Associate Editor, American Zoologist, 1997 - 1999; Guest Editor, Developmental Genetics theme issue on "Developmental Evolution", 1994; Guest Editor, Development, supplement " Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms", 1994

Grant Panels: panelist, NIH Study Section (Genetic Variation and Evolution), 2004-06; Reviewer of grant proposals, April 2005
Have reviewed for the following agencies and subdivisions during the past five years: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Astrobiology Institute; Gravitational and Developmental Biology; Molecular and Developmental Evolution). National Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada). National Environmental Research Council (United Kingdom). Human Frontiers of Science Program. National Geographic Foundation. Whitehead Foundation. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom). Smithsonian Institution. The March of Dimes. Sea Grant Foundation.; Panel Chair, NASA Fundamental Biology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution), 2001; Panel Member, NASA Astrobiology Institute, 2000; Ad hoc panelist, NIH Study Section (Neurology), 1994

Service to the Community: Scientific Advisory Board, Office of Tropical Studies, 2008 - present

Other: Membership in Professional Organizations, current
Society for the Study of Evolution. Society for Developmental Biology, Society of Systematic Biology

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, December, 2008; Cis-regulatory Sequences and Their Evolution, Riken Institute, Kobe Japan, October, 2008; Towards an Evolutionary Synthesis, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, Austria, July, 2008; Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, June, 2008; Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins XVI, Woods Hole, MA, April, 2008; Evolutionary Development Biology IGERT Conference, Eugene, Oregon, April, 2008; La Selva Research Station, Organization of Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, April, 2008; Center for Systems Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March, 2008; Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, March, 2008; Department of Biology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, February, 2008; Biological Basis of Complex Traits, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, November, 2007; Gordon Conference: Structural and Functional Genomics, Hinxton, England, August, 2007; Genetics Graduate Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, May, 2007; Computational Gene Regulation Conference, Bellairs, Barbados, April, 2007; Department of Biology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, March, 2007; Darwin's Birthday Symposium, NESCent, Durham, NC, February 12, 2007; Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February, 2007; Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, January, 2007; Biological Networks and Computation, University of California, Davis, 4 January 2006; Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 4 January 2006; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 4 January 2006; Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Ames, IA, 4 January 2006; Genome Days, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 January 2006; Integrating Genomics, Evolution, and Development, University of Californa, Berkeley, 4 January 2006; North Carolina Science Teachers Association, Greensboro, NC, 4 January 2006; University Program in Genetics, Texas A & M University, 4 January 2006; Bauer Center for Genomic Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005; Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2005; Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2005; Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2005; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2005; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2005; Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins XIV, Woods Hole, MA, 2005; Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms IV, Chicago, IL, 2005; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 2005; Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Diego, CA, 2005; Centennial Celebration, Friday Harbor Labs, Univ. of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA, 22 December 2004; Department of Ecology and Evolution, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 22 December 2004; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 22 December 2004; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 22 December 2004; Donald Abbot Lecture, Hopkins Marine Lab, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, 22 December 2004; Gordon Conference: Transcriptional Regulation, Ventura Beach, CA, 22 December 2004; Keynote address, Building Bridges Symposium, New York, NY, 22 December 2004; Meaning in Evolution, John Templeton Foundation, The Vatican, 22 December 2004; Santa Cruz Conference: Developmental Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, 22 December 2004; Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 22 December 2004; Systems Biology: Genomics and Transcriptional Regulation, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 22 December 2004; Gordon Conference: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Functional Genomics, New London, NH, 20 August 2003; Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Newport Beach, CA, 1 July 2003; University of Washington, Friday Harbor Labs, Friday Harbor, WA, 25 June 2003; University of Chicago, Department of Ecology & Evolution, Chicago, IL, 15 February 2003; North Carolina State University, Department of Genetics, Raleigh, NC, 21 October 2002; NASA Symposium: Understanding Mechanisms of Evolution, Woods Hole, MA, 24 September 2002; Society for Developmental Biology, Madison, WI, 23 July 2002; Developmental Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin XIII, Woods Hole, MA, 1 May 2002; Genomica: Ecologica & Evolutiva Funcional, Santiago, Chile, 27 March 2002; AAAs National Conference, Boston, MA, 10 January 2002; Banbury Center Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2001; Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms II, Chicago, IL, 2001; J. B. Johnson Speaker, Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA., 2001; Southeast Regional Developmental Biology Meeting, Asheville, NC, 2001; International Echinoderm Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2000; Molecular Aspects of Evolutionary Change, Leiden, Netherlands, 2000; NASA Symposium: Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms, Woods Hole, MA, 2000; Perspectives in Biology Symposium, Winston-Salem, NC, 2000; Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin IX, Woods Hole, MA, 1999; Evolution and Development Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1999; Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms I, Chicago, IL, 1999; Fertilization and Development of the Sea Urchin, Tokyo, Japan, 1999; Kane Lecture, Kewalo Marine Station, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 1999; European Echinoderm Conference, Milano, Italy, 1998; NASA Symposium on Evolution of Gene Regulatory Systems, Woods Hole, MA, 1998; New England Molecular Evolution Meeting, New York, NY, 1998; Novartis Foundation Symposium on Homology, London, United Kingdom, 1998; Sea Urchin Day, Istituto di Biologia dello Sviluppo, Palermo, Italy, 1998; Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston, MA, 1998; Symposium honoring Sven Hörstadius, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998; Uncovering Mechanisms in Evolution, Chapel Hill, NC, 1998; Wellcome Trust Symposium on Homology, London, United Kingdom, 1998; European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Arnhem, Netherlands., 1997; Northeast Regional Developmental Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, 1997; Society for the Study of Evolution/Society of Systematic Biology, Boulder, CO, 1997; Ninth International Echinoderm Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1996; American Society of Zoologists, St. Louis, MO, 1995; Evolution of Development: Genes, Mechanisms, & Phylogenetics, Bodega Bay, CA, 1995; Northeast Regional Developmental Biology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, 1995; British Society of Developmental Biology, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1994; Society for Developmental Biology, Providence, RI, 1993; American Society of Zoologists, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1992; American Society of Zoologists, San Antonio, TX, 1990

Doctoral Theses Directed: James P Balhoff, (1998 - 2005); Matthew V Rockman, (1999 - 2004); Ehab Abouheif, (1997 - 2002); Emily Knott, (2000); Alexandra Bely, (1999); Christopher Lowe, (1998)

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