Andrew G. Clark (biologist)
Andrew Clark is a Professor of Population Genetics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is the Jacob Gould Shurman Professor and a Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences at Cornell University. He is the current head of the Graduate Computation Biology field. He is also co-director of Cornell's Center for Comparative and Population Genomics. He currently has his own lab which researches drosophila and population genetics at Cornell University and is a member of a working group for the National Human Genome Research Institute. He is also the co-author of Principles of Population Genetics, Mechanisms of Molecular Evolution, and Evolution at the Molecular Level.Career
Clark received a B.S. from Brown University in 1976, followed by a Ph.D. in population genetics from Stanford University in 1980. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and the University of Aarhus, before joining the faculty of Penn State University's Department of Biology. Since 2002, he has been a professor at Cornell University. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. Clark's laboratory group researches genetic variation and adaptation using both human data and the laboratory model Drosophila melanogaster.
