Eric Christopher Anderson
Mailing Address
Dept of Integrative Biology	Born January 25, 1970
University of California	Email: eriq@u.washington.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140	(510) 643-6299 (wk)
	(510) 524-1831 (hm)
	Citizenship: USA

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (QERM)	2001	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
M.S. (Fisheries)	1998	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
B.A. (Human Biology)	1993	Stanford University, Stanford, CA
--	1990-91	Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
High School Diploma	1988	The Thacher School, Ojai, CA

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1999-	Designated Research Assistant, National Science Foundation Grant #BIR-9807747, ``Computational Methods for Inference of Population Parameters," (PI: E.A. Thompson).
1996-99	Trainee, National Science Foundation Mathematical Biology Training Grant #BIR-9256532 University of Washington. (PI: G.M Odell and T.L. Daniel).
1998	Fellow, Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, University of Washington.
1994-96	Fellow, H. Mason Keeler Endowment for Excellence. School of Fisheries, University of Washington.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2000	First Prize, Western North American Region Student Papers Competition, International Biometrics Society Conference, July, 2000, Berkeley, CA, for talk titled, ``Bayesian analysis of genetic mixture and admixture."
1993	Phi Beta Kappa and graduation ``With Distinction," Stanford University.
EMPLOYMENT
2001-	Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley (supervisor: Montgomery Slatkin)
1999-2001	Research Assistant, NSF Grant #BIR-9807747, ``Computational Methods for Inference of Population Parameters," (PI: E.A. Thompson).
1999	Pre-Doctoral Lecturer. Prepared syllabus and lectured for the first four weeks of Biology 472, Advanced Undergraduate Ecology. Summer. University of Washington, Department of Biology.
1997	Graduate Assistant, Curriculum development, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
1994-98	Research Assistant, Center for Streamside Studies, School of Fisheries, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, and Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
TEACHING
1999	Pre-Doctoral Lecturer. Prepared syllabus, delivered all lectures,maintained course web site, wrote exams and problem sets, for the first half of Biology 472, (advanced undergraduate ecology). Summer. University of Washington, Department of Biology.
1999	Guest Lecturer. Delivered guest lectures on random walks and renewal processes for the undergraduate level stochastic processes course Statistics 396, and a guest lecture on the Monte Carlo method and importance sampling for the graduate-level statistical genetics course, Statistics 578C. University of Washington, Department of Statistics.
1997-98	Paid Tutor for students in Statistics 512 and 513 (graduate mathematical statistics), University of Washington.
	Teaching Assistant, University of San Francisco Wildlands Study Program. Assisted Dr. John McLaughlin on a three-week summer course studying carnivores and conservation in the North Cascades, Washington.

Anderson, E.C. and Thompson, E.A. (2002) A model-based method for identifying species hybrids using multilocus genetic data. Genetics 160: 1217--1229. [abstract] [reprint in pdf (232 K)]

Anderson, E.C. and Scheet, P.A. (2001) Improving the estimation of bacterial allele frequencies. Genetics 158:1383--1386. [abstract] [reprint in pdf (68 K)]

Anderson, E.C., Williamson, E.G. and Thompson, E.A. (2000) Monte Carlo evaluation of the likelihood for N_e from temporally-spaced samples. Genetics 156: 2109-2118. [abstract] [reprint in pdf (316 K)]

Anderson, E.C. and Thompson, E.A. (1999) MCMC likelihoods for population genetics. Proceedings of the 52nd Session of the International Statistical Institute, 3:347-348. [paper in pdf (180 K)]

Naiman, R.J. and Anderson, E.C. (1997) Streams and rivers: their physical and biological variability. In The Rain Forests of Home: Profile of a North American Bioregion, ed. P.K. Schoonmaker, B. von Hagen, E.C. Wolf, pp. 131-148. Washington, D.C., Island Press.

Anderson, E.C. (in review) Bayesian analysis of population-genetic mixture and admixture. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. [abstract] [manuscript in pdf (1.6 Mb)]

Anderson, E.C. (1998) Inferring the ancestral origin of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, in the Lake Washington basin: A statistical method in theory and application. Master's Thesis. University of Washington (Advisor: Dr. Thomas Sibley) [abstract] [thesis in pdf (1.1 Mb)]

Anderson, E.C. (2001) Monte Carlo methods for inference from population-genetic models. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington (Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Thompson) [abstract] [thesis in pdf (2.7 Mb)]


SOFTWARE AUTHORED

 

MCLEEPS. Monte Carlo Likelihood for Estimation of Effective Population Size. Program written in C and distributed on the World Wide Web for free. Implements the importance sampling algorithm described in Anderson, E.C., Williamson, E.G. and Thompson, E.A. (2000) to estimate a population's genetically effective population size from temporally spaced samples.

NewHybrids. Program written in C and distributed for free, implementing a Gibbs sampler to estimate the posterior probability that genetically sampled individuals fall into each of a set of user-defined hybrid categories. Described in Anderson, E.C. and Thompson, E.A. (2002).

GF(MC)². GLUT for Markov Chain Monte Carlo. A small application programming interface written in C and distributed freely for using the OpenGL Utilities Toolkit to render real-time pictures of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations.

INVITED TALKS

Anderson, E.C. (2001) "Bayesian methods for inference in populations of hybridizing fish," invited to session on Statistics in Fisheries I. Joint meetings of the Statistics Society of Canada, Western North American Region of the International Biometrics Society, and International Mathematics Society. Burnaby, Canada, July. [abstract]

Anderson, E.C. (2000) "Salmon, genetics, and Monte Carlo," invited departmental seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, Canada, April. [abstract] [overheads in pdf (536 K)]

SELECTED CONTRIBUTED TALKS, ETC.

Anderson, E.C. (2002) "Identifying species hybrids using multilocus genetic data," Evolution 2002, Urbana-Champaign, June.

Anderson, E.C. and Pritchard, J. K. (2000) "Bayesian analysis of population mixture and admixture," International Biometrics Conference, Berkeley, July. [abstract] [overheads in pdf (528 K)]

Anderson, E.C. (1999) "Analyzing genetic mixtures using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo," informal seminar to the Department of Statistics while visiting the Mathematical Genetics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK, November. [abstract] [overheads in pdf (156 K)]

Anderson, E.C., Thompson, E.A., and Williamson, E.G. (1999) "Importance sampling for Monte Carlo evaluation of the likelihood for effective population size," Western North American Region of the International Biometrics Society conference, Seattle, June. [abstract] [overheads in pdf (576 K)]

Anderson, E.C. (1997) "The origins of Lake Washington sockeye salmon: What can genetic data tell us?" presented at the multi-agency Lake Washington Workshop, December. [extended abstract, pdf (64 K)] [overheads in pdf (72 K)]

POSTERS

Anderson, E.C. and Novembre, J. (2002) "Haplotype block inference using the minimum description length principle," DIMACS/RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Methods for SNPs and Haplotype Inference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, November 21-22.

Bioinformatics
Conservation Genetics
Genetics
Genetical Research
Journal of Fish Biology  (UK)
Molecular Ecology