Education:
- Ph.D., 1986, Quantitative Genetics, (Plant Breeding Major, Statistics Minor) Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- M.S., 1981, Interdisciplinary Biology-Statistics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
- B.S., 1978, Range Management, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
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Positions Held:
- Chief Scientific Officer, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM (October 2000 to present)
- Director of Scientific Programs, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM (June1999 to October 2000)
- Program Leader, Complex Traits, National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM (1998-June 1999)
- Research Manager, Research and Product Development; Pioneer Hi-Bred, IntAEl, Johnston, IA (1987-1998)
- Data Manager, Sorghum Breeding Department, Pioneer Hi-Bred, IntAEl, Plainview, TX (1986-1987)
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Honors:
- 1993. Elected by international colleagues to chair the Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Biotechnology for 1997.
- 1998. Recognition for development of a useful Maize RFLP map conferred by the Department of Biotechnology at Pioneer Hi-Bred.
- 1985. Iowa State University Research Excellence Award. This award is conferred upon the top ten percent of the dissertations submitted to the graduate college.
- 1985. Awarded a competitive mini-grant from the Iowa State Graduate College for cooperative work with the University of Minnesota on isolation and electrophoretic separation in enzyme-restricted mtDNA from Avena species.
Honor Societies:
- 1983 Gamma Sigma Delta.
- 1980 Sigma XI.
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Other Professional Activities:
- 1999 - present. Advisory Board to NSF funded project on soybean functional genomics.
- 1998. Panel Manager for the Plant Genome Panel of the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, CSRS, USDA.
- 1997. Member of the Genome Panel for the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, CSRS, USDA.
- 1997. Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Biotechnology.
- 1996 - present. Associate Editor of Genetical Research, Cambridge.
- 1995 - 1996. Review panel for MILQTL, University of Liege, Belgium.
- 1994. Member of the Genome Panel for the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, CSRS, USDA.
- 1992 - 1994 Member of the genetic nomenclature and database committees of the Maize Genome
- 1990 - present. Referee 10-15 manuscripts per year for Genetics, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Crop Science, Trends in Genetics, Trends in Plant Science.
- 1990 - 1995. Review competitive grant proposals submitted to PHI.
- 1993 - 1994. Chair of maize mapping team at PHI.
- 1992 - 1994. Heterosis committee member at PHI.
- 1992 - 1995. Guest lecturer for classes at Cold Spring Harbor, Iowa State University and University of Minnesota.
- 1992 - 1994. Served on graduate student committee at Iowa State University.
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Publications:
- Munneke, B., Beavis, W.D., Schlauch, K.A. and Doerge, R.W. (2001) A Penalized Dissimilarity Measure and Permutation Confidence Measures for Gene Expression Cluster Analysis. Bioinformatics (submitted)
- Beavis, W.D., and Jansen, R.C. (2000) Mapping phenotypic traits in plant breeding populations on basis basis of haplotypes for multiple genetic markers. Genetics (in press)
- Siepel, A., Tolopko, A., Farmer, A., Steadman, P., Schilkey, F., Perry, B.D., and Beavis, W.D. (2001) A development platform for the integration of heterogeneous bioinformatics software components. IBM Systems Journal (published)
- Siepel, A., Farmer, A., Tolopko, A., Zhuang, M., Mendes, P., Beavis, W.D., and Sobral, B.W.S. (2001) ISYS: A decentralized, component-based approach to the integration of heterogeneous bioinformatics resources. IBM Systems Journal (published)
- Mangalam, H., Stewart, J., Zhou, J., Schlauch, K., Waugh, M., Chen, G., Farmer, A., Colello, G., Weller, J., and Beavis, W.D. (2000) GeneX: an Open Source Gene Expression Database and Integrated Tool Set. IBM Systems Journal (in press)
- Sobral, B.W.S and W.D. Beavis (1999) Information System Approaches to Support Discovery in Agricultural Genomics. In DNA-Based Markers in Plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers. RL Philips (ed). Kluwer Academic Publishers (pp not yet assigned).
- Jansen, R. and W.D. Beavis (1999) MQM-IBD: a novel method for mapping quantitative trait loci in plant breeding populations. (submitted)
- Beavis, WD (1998) QTL Mapping in Plant Breeding Populations. US Patent (Pending).
- Beavis, WD (1998) QTL Analyses: Power, Precision and Accuracy. In Molecular Analysis of Complex Traits. AH Paterson (ed). CRC Press pp 145-161.
- Beavis, WD, P Keim (1996) Identification of QTL that are affected by environment. In Genotype by Environment Interactions: New Perspectives. MS Kang and H Gauch (eds), CRC press, pp 123-150.
- Smith, S, WD Beavis (1996) Molecular marker assisted breeding in a company environment. In The Impact of Plant Molecular Genetics. BWS Sobral (ed), Birkhauser, pp 260-272.
- Beavis, WD (1996) QTL mapping in plant breeding populations. In 1996 Proceedings of the Biometric Section of the American Statistical Association. Am Statistical Assoc. pp 13-20.
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