CURRICULUM VITAE

B.S., Biology, Eastern New Mexico University
M.A., Entomology, University of Kansas
Ph.D., Entomology, University of Kansas
Postdoctoral, Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Ph.D. Dissertation Awarded Honors, University of Kansas.
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia,
National Institutes of Health Fellowship in Genetics, University of Wisconsin.
Outstanding Alumni Award, Eastern New Mexico University.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
National Science Foundation Mid-Career Fellowship.
W. F. James Chair Distinguished Professor of Pure and Applied Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Senior Fellowship in Molecular Evolution, University of California, Irvine.
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Statistics, NC State University.
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Universität Bielefeld, FSP Mathematisierung, Germany.
International Fellow, Graduate School for Bioinformatics and Genome Research, University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Max Planck Institute in Mathematics, Leipzig (Germany)

PERMANENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Assistant to Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Statistics, Texas Tech University.
Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Wisconsin.
Professor of Entomology and Professor of Genetics, University of Wisconsin.
Professor of Genetics, University of Wisconsin.
Professor of Genetics, Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University.
Head, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University.
Director, Center for Quantitative Genetics, North Carolina State University.
Director, Center for Computational Biology, North Carolina State University

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Assistant Professor of Entomology, University of Kansas.
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Visiting Fellow, Department of Population Biology, Australian National University.
Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
W. F. James Chair Distinguished Professor of Pure and Applied Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University.

OFFICES HELD IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

American Society of Naturalists (Vice President).
Society for the Study of Evolution (Councilor; Associate Editor).
Society of Systematic Zoology (Councilor).

MAJOR SYMPOSIUMS ORGANIZED

Society for the Study of Evolution, "Quantitative Genetics, Development and Evolution", Chicago.
American Society of Naturalists - Vice Presidential Symposium - Evolution of Developmental Systems, Bozeman, Montana.
Center for Quantitative Genetics, "Genetics of Quantitative Traits", North Carolina State Univ.
4th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, "Genetics of Morphology" Chicago.
Center for Quantitative Genetics, "Genetics of Quantitative Traits", North Carolina State Univ., .
Gordon Conference in Molecular Evolution (Foundation Conference).
Center for Computational Biology, "Molecular Biology and Evolution," North Carolina State Univ..
7th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, "Developmental Genetics," Montpellier, France.
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, "Founders Symposium," University of California, Irvine.

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1980

40. Atchley, W. R. 1980. M-statistics and morphometric divergence. Science 208:1059-1060.

41. Atchley, W. R. and J. J. Rutledge. 1980. Genetic components of size and shape variation. I. Dynamics of components of phenotypic variability and covariability during ontogeny in the laboratory rat. Evolution 34:1161-1174.

42. Atchley, W. R. 1981. M. J. D. White: The scientist and the man. In: Atchley, W. R. and D. S. Woodruff, eds. Evolution and Speciation: Essays in Honor of M. J. D. White. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-20.

43. Atchley, W. R. 1981. Morphometric divergence and genetic differentiation in the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo. In: Atchley, W. R. and D. S. Woodruff, eds. Evolution and Speciation: Essays in Honor of M. J. D. White. Cambridge University Press, pp. 371-397.

44. Atchley, W. R., J. J. Rutledge, and D. E. Cowley. 1981. Genetic components of size and shape variation. II. Multivariate covariance patterns in the rat and mouse skull. Evolution 35:1037-1055.

45. Campbell, W. R. and W. R. Atchley. 1981. The geometry of canonical variate analysis. Systematic Zoology 30:268-280.

46. Atchley, W. R., J. J. Rutledge and D. E. Cowley. 1982. A multivariate statistical analysis of direct and correlated response to selection in the rat. Evolution 36:677-698.

47. Atchley, W. R., J. J. Rutledge and D. E. Cowley. 1982. Direct and correlated response to selection in osteometric traits in the rat. Bioscience 38:684.

48. Atchley, W. R., E. V. Nordheim, F. C. Gunsett and P. L. Crump. 1982. Geometric and probabilistic aspects of statistical distance functions. Systematic Zoology 34:445-460.

49. Cheverud, J. M., J. J. Rutledge and W. R. Atchley. 1983. Quantitative genetics of development: Genetic correlations among age-specific trait values and the evolution of ontogeny. Evolution 37:895- 905.

50. Atchley, W. R. 1983. Some genetic aspects of morphometric variation. In: Felsenstein, J., ed. Numerical Taxonomy. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 346-363.

51. Cheverud, J. M., L. J. Leamy, W. R. Atchley and J. J. Rutledge. 1983. Quantitative genetics and the evolution of ontogeny. I. Ontogenetic changes in quantitative genetic variance components in randombred mice. Genetical Research 42:65-75.

52. Atchley, W. R. 1983. A genetic analysis of the mandible and maxilla in the rat. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 3:409-422.

53. Leamy, L. and W. R. Atchley. 1984. Static and evolutionary allometry of osteometric traits in selected lines of rats. Evolution 38:47-54.

54. Atchley, W. R. 1984. Ontogeny, timing of development, and genetic variance - covariance structure. American Naturalist 123:519-540.

55. Atchley, W. R. 1984. The effect of selection on brain and body size associations. Genetical Research 43:289-298.

56. Leamy, L. and W. R. Atchley. 1984. Integration of the scapula in rats. Journal of Zoology (London) 202:43-56.

57. Riska, B., W. R. Atchley and J. J. Rutledge. 1984. A genetic analysis of targeted growth in mice. Genetics 107:79-101.

58. Atchley, W. R., S. W. Herring, B. Riska and A. A. Plummer. 1984. Effects of the muscular dysgenesis gene on developmental stability in the mouse mandible. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 4:179-189.

59. Atchley, W. R., B. Riska, L. A. P. Kohn, A. A. Plummer and J. J. Rutledge. 1984. A quantitative genetic analysis of brain and body associations, their origin and ontogeny: Data from mice. Evolution 38:1165-1179.

60. Leamy, L. and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Directional selection and developmental stability: Evidence from fluctuating asymmetry on morphometric traits in rats. Growth 49:8-18.

61. Fitch, W. M. and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Evolution in inbred strains of mice is rapid. Science 228:1169- 1175.
See also: Lewin, R. 1985. Why do inbred mice evolve so quickly? Science 228:1187

62. Riska, B. and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Genetics of growth predicts patterns of brain - size evolution. Science 229:668-671.

63. Riska, B., J. J. Rutledge and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Estimates of covariance between direct and maternal effects in mice, with a model of genetic and persistent environmental effects. Genetical Research 45:287-297.

64. Riska, B., J. J. Rutledge and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Genetic analysis of crossfostering data with sire and dam records. Journal of Heredity 76:247-250.

65. Atchley, W. R., A. A. Plummer and B. Riska. 1985. Genetics of mandible form in the mouse. Genetics 111:555-577.

66. Atchley, W. R., A. A. Plummer and B. Riska. 1985. A genetic analysis of size scaling patterns in adult mouse mandibles. Genetics 111:579-595.

67. Fitch, W. M. and W. R. Atchley. 1985. Rapid mutations in mice? Science 230:1408-1409.

68. Cowley, D. E., W. R. Atchley, and J. J. Rutledge. 1986. Quantitative genetics of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Sexual dimorphism in genetic parameters for wing traits. Genetics 114:549-566.

69. Atchley, W. R. 1987. Developmental quantitative genetics and the evolution of ontogenies. Evolution 41:316-330.

70. Fitch, W. M. and W. R. Atchley. 1987. Divergence in inbred strains of mice: A comparison of three different types of data. In: C. Patterson, eds. Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict or Compromise? Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 203-216.

71. Fitch, W. M and W. R. Atchley. 1987. Polyphyletic origin of inbred mice: A response to Bonhomme et al. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 30:59-61.

72. Atchley, W. R., S. Newman and D. E. Cowley. 1988. Genetic aspects of divergence in mandible form among inbred mouse strains. Genetics 120:239-253.

73. Kohn, L. A. P. and W. R. Atchley. 1988. How similar are genetic correlation structures? Data from mice and rats. Evolution 42:467-481.

74. Cowley, D. E. and W. R. Atchley. 1988. Quantitative genetics of Drosophila melanogaster. II. Heritabilities and genetic correlations between sexes for head and thorax traits. Genetics 119:421-433.

75. Cowley, D. E., D. Pomp, W. R. Atchley, E. J. Eisen and D. Hawkins-Brown. 1989. The impact of materal uterine genotype on postnatal growth and adult body size in mice. Genetics 122:193-203.

76. Pomp, D., D. E. Cowley, E. J. Eisen and W. R. Atchley. 1989. Donor and recipient genotype and heterosis effects of prenatal survival and growth of transferred mouse embryos. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 86:493-500.

77. Atchley, W. R. 1989. The evolution of developmental systems. American Naturalist 134:437-439.

78. Atchley, W. R. and S. Newman. 1989. A quantitative genetic perspective of mammalian development. American Naturalist 134:486-512.

79. Cowley, D. E. and W. R. Atchley. 1990. Developmental quantitative genetic analysis of correlation structure among body parts in Drosophila melanogaster. American Naturalist 135:242-268.

80. Atchley, W. R., D. E. Cowley, E. J. Eisen, H. Prasetyo and D. Hawkins-Brown. 1990. Correlated response in the developmental choreographies of the mouse mandible mouse to selection for body composition. Evolution 44:669-688.

81. Atchley, W. R. 1990. Heterochony and morphological change: A quantitative genetic model. Seminars in Developmental Biology 1:289-297.

82. Atchley, W. R., T. E. Logsdon, D. E. Cowley and E. J. Eisen. 1991. Uterine effects, epigenetics and postnatal skeletal development in the mouse. Evolution 45:891-909.

83. Cheverud, J. M., S. E. Hartman, J. T. Richtsmeier and W. R. Atchley. 1991. A quantitative genetic analysis of localized morphology in inbred mouse mandibles using finite element scaling analysis. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 11:122-137.

84. Atchley, W. R. and B. K. Hall. 1991. A model for the development and evolution of complex morphological structures. Biological Reviews 166:101-157.

85. Atchley, W. R. and W. M. Fitch. 1991. Gene trees and the origin of inbred strains of mice. Science 254:554-558.
See also: Hillis, D. B. and J. J. Bull. 1991. Perspective - Of genes and gemones. Science 254:528.

86. Cowley, D. E. and W. R. Atchley. 1992. Quantitative genetic models for development, epigenetic selection and phenotypic evolution. Evolution 46:495-518.

87. Atchley, W. R., D. E. Cowley, C. Vogl and T. McLellan. 1992. Evolutionary divergence, shape change and genetic correlation structure in the rodent mandible. Systematic Biology 41:196-221.

88. Cowley, D. E. and W. R. Atchley. 1992. Comparing genetic statistics. Evolution 46:1965-1967.

89. Atchley, W. R. 1993. Genetic and developmental aspects of variability in the mammalian mandible. In: J. Hanken and B. K. Hall, eds. The Vertebrate Skull, vol. 1, Development. University of Chicago Press, pp. 207-247.

90. Atchley, W. R. and W. M. Fitch. 1993. Genetic affinities of among inbred strains of laboratory mice. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10:1150-1169.

91. Sage, R. D., W. R. Atchley and E. Capanna. 1993. The mouse as a model in systematics. Systematic Biology 42:523-561.

92. Vogl, C., W. R. Atchley, D. E. Cowley, P. Crenshaw, J. D. Murray and D. Pomp. 1993. The epigenetic influence of growth hormone on skeletal growth in the mouse. Growth, Development and Aging 57:163-182.

93. Xu, S., W. R. Atchley and W. M. Muir. 1994. Multistage selection incorporating information from relatives. Proceedings 5th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Vol. 18:178-188.

94. Atchley, W. R., S. Xu and C. Vogl. 1994. Developmental quantitative genetic models of evolutionary change. Developmental Genetics 15:92-103.

95. Vogl, C., W. R. Atchley and S. Xu. 1994. The ontogeny of morphological differences in the mandible in two inbred strains of mice. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 14:97-110.

96. Xu, S., W. R. Atchley and W. Muir. 1994. Partial and conditional maximum likelihood for variance component estimation. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 111:178-188.

97. Xu, S., W. R. Atchley and W. M. Fitch. 1994. Phylogenetic inference under the pure drift model. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11:949-960.

98. Atchley, W. R., W. M. Fitch and M. Bronner-Fraser. 1994. Molecular evolution of the MyoD family of transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 91:11522-11526.

99. Xu, S. and W. R. Atchley. 1995. A random model approach to interval mapping of quantitative trait loci. Genetics 141:1189-1195.

100. Atchley, W. R. and W. M. Fitch. 1995. Myc and Max: Molecular evolution of a family of proto-oncogenes and their dimerization partner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 92:10217-10221.

101. Vogl, C. and W. R. Atchley. 1995. Hormone gradients and cartilage cell kinetics. Cell Proliferation 28:453-469

102. Xu, S. and W. R. Atchley. 1996. Heterozygosity of F2 from two segregating populations. Journal of Heredity 86:477-480.

103. Xu, S. and W. R. Atchley. 1996. Mapping quantitative trait loci for complex binary diseases using line crosses. Genetics 143:1417-1424.

104. Xu, S. and W. R. Atchley. 1996. A Monte Carlo algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation of variance components. Genetics, Selection and Evolution 28:329-343.

105. Atchley, W. R., D. E. Cowley and S. Xu. 1997. Restricted index selection for altering developmental trajectories in mice. Genetics 146:629-640.

106. Atchley, W. R. and W. M. Fitch. 1997. A natural classification of the basic helix-loop-helix class of transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 94:5172-5176.

107. Atchley, W. R. and J. Zhu. 1997. Developmental quantitative genetics, conditional epigenetic variability and growth in mice. Genetics 147:765-776.

108. Rosinski, J. and W. R. Atchley. 1998. Molecular evolution of Myb family of transcription factors. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 46:74-83.

109. Atchley, W. R. 1998. Developmental quantitative genetics: Age-specific response to selection. Proceedings 6th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. 26:505-512.

110. Ernst, C. A., B. K. Rhees, J. Miao and W. R. Atchley. 1998. Correlated response in partitioned maternal effects to selection for early postnatal growth rate in mice. Proceedings 6th World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production 26:514-516.

111. Morgenstern, B., W R. Atchley, K. Hahn and A. Dress. 1998. Segment-based scores for pairwise and multiple sequence alignments. Ismb 6:115-121.

112. Atchley, W. R., W. Terhalle and A. Dress. 1999. Positional Dependence, cliques and predictive motifs in the bHLH protein domain. Journal of Molecular Evolution 48:501-519.

113. Rhees, B. K., C. A. Ernst, C. H. Maio and W. R. Atchley. 1999. Uterine and postnatal maternal effects in mice selected for differential rate of early development. Genetics 153:905-917.

114. Ernst, C. A., P. D. Crenshaw and W. R. Atchley. 1999. Effect of selection for development rate on reproductive onset in female mice. Genetical Research 74:55-64.

115. Morgenstern, B. and W. R. Atchley. 1999. Evolution of the bHLH family of transcription factors: Modular evolution by domain shuffling? Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:1654-63.

116. Rosinski, J. A. and W. R. Atchley. 1999. Evolution of helix turn helix proteins: Functional constraints or common ancestry. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49:301-309.

117. Ernst, C. A., B. K. Rhees, C. H. Miao and W. R. Atchley. 2000. Effect of long-term selection on survival and prenatal development of transferred mouse embryos. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 118:205-210.

118. Atchley, W. R., K. R. Wollenberg, W. M. Fitch, W. Terhalle and A. W. Dress. 2000. Correlations among amino acid sites in bHLH protein domains: An information theoretic analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:164-178.

119. Lowry, J. A. and W. R. Atchley. 2000. Molecular evolution of the GATA family of transcription factors: conservation with the DNA binding domain. Journal of Molecular Evolution 50:103-115.

120. Wollenberg, K. R. and W. R. Atchley. 2000. Separation of phylogenetic and functional associations in biological sequences using parametric bootstrap. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97:3288-3291.

121. Atchley, W. R., Wei, R., and P. D. Crenshaw. 2000. Cellular consequences in the brain and liver to age-specific selection for rate of development in mice. Genetics 155:1347-1357.

122. Rhees, B. K. and W. R. Atchley. 2000. Body weight and tail length divergence in mice selected for rate of development. Journal of Experimental Zoology 287:151-164.

123. Miller, R. A., C. Chrisp and W. R. Atchley. 2000. Differential longevity in mouse stocks selected for early life growth trajectory. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 55A:B455-B461.

124. Kulkarni, N. H., C. A. Karavanich, W. R. Atchley and R. R. H. Anholt. 2000. Characterization and differential expression of a human gene family of olfactomedin-related proteins. Genetical Research 76:41-50.

125. Ragg, H. R., T. Lokot, A. Dress and W. R. Atchley. 2001. Vertebrate serpins: constructing a conflict-free phylogeny by combining intron and diagnostic site analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 12: 577-584.

126. Ernst, C. A., B. K Rhees and W. R. Atchley. Partitioning maternal effects for development and female reproductive onset in mice under long term selection for rate of growth. Genetics. (In press)

127. Atchley, W. R., T. Lokot, A. Dress, H. R. Ragg and K. Wollenberg. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of the amino acid sequences in serpin proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:1502-11.

128. Buck, M. J. and W. R. Atchley. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of Plant basic helix-loop-helix proteins. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 56:742-50.

129 . Atchley, W. R. and M. J. Buck. 2005. The Origins of Amino Acid Sequence Correlation in Basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) proteins. Journal of Molecular Evolution, Accepted.

130. Atchley, W. R. and A. Fernandes. 2005. Sequence Signatures and the Probabilistic Identification of Proteins in the Myc-Max-Mad Network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:6401-6406.

131. Atchley, W. R., J. Zhao, A. Fernandes and T. Drueke. 2005. Solving the sequence “metric” problem . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:6395-6400.  

132. Buck, M. J. and W. R. Atchley. 2005. Networks of coevolving sites in structural and functional domains of serpin proteins.. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:1627-1634.

133. Funk-Keenan, J and W. R. Atchley. 2005. Maternal effects, genomic imprinting and evolution. E. J. Eisen, Ed. The Mouse in Animal Genetics and Breeding Research. Imperial Press, London.

134. Wang, Z. and W. R. Atchley. 2005. Spectral analysis of periodicities in bHLH amino acid sequences. Submitted for publication.