Mark D. Shriver PhD

After getting an Undergraduate B.S. degree at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and working as a Laboratory Technician at the New York University Medical Center, Dr. Shriver received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas/Houston Health Science Center in the Center for Demographic and Population Genetics. Dr. Shriver then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Human Genetics, and in 1997, took a position as Assistant Professor of Human Genetics at the Allegheny University of the Health Sciences. In 1999 he moved his laboratory to The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania where he was promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology and Genetics in 2005. For the 2009-2010 academic year Dr. Shriver was on leave from The Pennsylvania State University and has accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Biology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Shriver heads projects emphasizing the practical applications of population genomic research. These projects are primarily focused on admixture mapping, signatures of natural selection, and the elucidation of the evolutionary-genetic architecture underlying phenotypic variability in common trait variation.