Jeffrey D. Jensen
EDUCATION &
HONORS
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York 2002-2006
PhD in Genetics (Drs. Charles F. Aquadro
and Carlos D. Bustamante)
- Completed
coursework in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Mathematics
and Statistics
- Awarded
Graduate College conference grants (2003, 2004, 2006)
- Trainee on
Cornell NIH Training Grant (2002-3)
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 1998-2002
Bachelor of Arts in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
- Undergraduate
Biology Research Fellow (2000-2002)
- Biomedical Research Abroad Fellow (2001)
- Department of Anthropology academic scholarship
(1999-2002)
- College of Social Sciences research grant (2000)
- Honors College research grant (2000)
- Department of
Anthropology research grant (2000)
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 2007-Present
NSF
Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow (Drs. Peter Andolfatto
and Doris Bachtrog)
- Identifying
cis-acting binding sites for the dosage compensation
machinery on the Drosophila X-chromosome
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York 2006
Postdoctoral
Associate (Dr. Charles F. Aquadro)
-Distinguishing
positive selection from non-equilibrium demographic effects
using sequence polymorphism data
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 2000-2002
Undergraduate
Biology Research Fellow (Dr. Michael Nachman)
- Nucleotide
variability at G6PD and the signature of malarial selection
in humans
University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2001
Biomedical
Research Abroad Fellow (Dr. Brian Charlesworth)
-Reduced
adaptation of a non-recombining neo-Y chromosome
PUBLICATIONS
1)
Jensen
J.D., Y. Kim, V.
Bauer DuMont, C.F. Aquadro and C.D. Bustamante,
2005. Distinguishing
between selective sweeps and demography using DNA
polymorphism data. Genetics 170: 1401-1410.
2) Casa, A.M., S.E.
Mitchell, J.D.
Jensen, M.T.
Hamblin, A.H. Paterson, C.F. Aquadro, and S. Kresovich,
2006. Evidence for a
selective sweep on chromosome 1 of cultivated
sorghum.
Crop Science
46: S15-S26.
3) Thornton, K.R. and J.D. Jensen, 2007. Controlling the
false positive rate in multi-locus genome scans for
selection. Genetics 175: 737-750.
4) Wong, A.W., J.D. Jensen, J.E. Pool and C.F. Aquadro,
2007. Phylogenetics of
the Drosophila melanogaster species group - evidence for
ancestral lineage sorting and
recombination. Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 43:
1138-50.
5) Thornton, K.R., J.D. Jensen, C. Bequet and P. Andolfatto,
2007. Progress and
prospects in mapping recent selection in the
genome. Heredity 98: 340-8.
6) Jensen,
J.D., K.R.
Thornton, C.D. Bustamante, and C.F. Aquadro, 2007.
On the
utility of linkage disequilibrium as a statistic for
identifying targets of positive selection in
non-equilibrium populations. Genetics 176: 2371-2379.
7) Jensen,
J.D., V. Bauer
DuMont, A.B. Ashmore, A. Gutierrez and C.F. Aquadro,
Patterns of
variability and divergence at the diminutive gene region of
Drosophila melanogaster. In press at Genetics.
8) Jensen,
J.D., A. Wong, and
C.F. Aquadro, On statistical and
functional approaches for identifying targets of positive
selection. In
press for Trends
in Genetics.
9) Jensen,
J.D., K.R.
Thornton, and C.F. Aquadro, Inferring selection
in partially sequenced regions. In review for Mol. Biol.
Evol.
10) Singh, N.D., J.M. Macpherson, J.D. Jensen, and D.A. Petrov, X-linked and
autosomal nucleotide variation in African and non-African
populations of Drosophila
melanogaster. In
review for BMC
Evolutionary Biology.
11) Jensen,
J.D., K.R.
Thornton, and P. Andolfatto, Quantifying the
rate and strength of recurrent positive selection using DNA
polymorphism data. In prep.