• Genetics of malaria resistance in Southeast Asia
• The signature of natural selection at candidate genes in humans
• The genetic basis of α-amanitin tolerance in mycophagous Drosophila

Summer 2007 : J. Wilder, Meredith Gansner '08, Lauren Finn '09, Lindsay Bouton '09, and Hannah Ratcliffe '09

Thesis Students

2007-2008

• Emily Brown (co-advised with Joan Edwards)
• Meredith Gansner
• Jonathan Stone

Previous Students

• Sara Jablonski '07: "α-Amanitin tolerance in the Drosophila quinaria species group"
• Elizabeth Preston '07: "Molecular population genetics of the Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis locus (SCL4A1) in Indonesia"
• Ben Brown '08: " Testing for ongoing balancing selection at the human ALDH2 locus through sequence based analysis"
• Elizabeth Hewett '08: "Are genes that confer resistance to malaria in humans subject to long-term selection in Great Apes?"

Recent Publications

• Wilder, J.A. and M.F. Hammer. 2007. Extraordinary population structure among the Baining of New Britain. Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific (J.S. Friedlaender, ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp199-207.
• Brown, B.T. '06, A. Woerner and J.A. Wilder. 2007. Ascertainment bias and the pattern of nucleotide diversity at the human ALDH2 locus in a Japanese population. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 64:375-385.
• Brisson, J, J.A. Wilder and H. Hollocher. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of the cardini group of Drosophila with respect to changes in pigmentation. Evolution. 60:1228-1241.
• Garrigan, D., Z. Mobasher, T. Severson, Wilder, J.A. and M.F. Hammer. 2005. Evidence for archaic Asian ancestry on the human X chromosome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:189-192.
• Wilder, J.A., Z. Mobasher and M.F. Hammer. 2004. Genetic evidence for unequal effective population sizes of human males and females. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:2047-2057.
• Wilder, J.A., S. Kingan, Z. Mobasher, M. Metni Pilkington, and M.F. Hammer. 2004. Global patterns of human mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome structure are not influenced by higher migration rates of females versus males. Nature Genetics 36:1122-1125.

Complete list of publications

Press Coverage of Recent Work

• NY Times (online) - September 6, 2007
• Williams Record - November 30, 2005
• AAAS ScienceUpdate radio spot - October 5, 2004
• The Economist - September 23, 2004
• ScienceNOW and Science Magazine - September 21 & October 1, 2004
• DiscoveryChannel.com - September 20, 2004