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Education
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2004 - 2006
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Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
Germany
Postdoctoral fellow under Svante Pääbo
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2002 - 2003
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Interdiscplinary Center
for Bioinformatics, Leipzig,
Germany
Postdoctoral fellow under Molly Przeworski
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1996 - 2001
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Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences under Marcus W. Feldman
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1992 - 1996
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Villanova University,Villanova, PA,
USA
B.S. in Honors Biology with a minor in mathematics
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Honors and Grants
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1999
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Centennial Teaching
Assistant Award
Stanford University,
Stanford CA, USA
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1996 - 2001
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Howard Hughes Medical
Research predoctoral fellowship
Stanford University,
Stanford CA, USA
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1996
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Mendal Medallion,
Academic Excellence in Sciences
Villanova University,
Villanova PA, USA
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1996
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Gallen Award, Service and
Achievment in Biology
Villanova University,
Villanova PA, USA
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1995 - 1996
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Goldwater Scholar
scholarship
Villanova University,
Villanova PA, USA
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1992 - 1996
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Villanova Scholar
scholarship
Villanova University,
Villanova PA, USA
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Teaching and Research Experience
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Summer 1999
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Summer School in Complex
Systems
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe,
NM, USA
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Fall 1998, Spring 1997,
Winter 1997
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Teaching assistant in
introductory biology, behavioral ecology, & biostatistics
Stanford University,
Stanford CA, USA
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Spring 1994 - Summer 1996
(including summers)
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Independent research in
population genetics under R. William Marks
Villanova University, Villanova PA, USA
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Fall 1994 - Spring 1996
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Teaching assistant for
genetics under R. William Marks
Villanova University, Villanova PA, USA
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Summers 1994 - 1997
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Resident assistant and
instructor for a program in math and biology for high school students in
NSF - HHMI Young Scholars Program
Villanova University, Villanova PA, USA
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Summer 1993
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Research assistant to
Nicholas R.S. Hall and associates
University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL, USA
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Publications
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Ptak, S.E., Enard, W., Wiebe, V., Hellmann, I.,
Krause, J., Lachmann, M., Pääbo, S. 2009. Linkage disequilibrium
extends across putative selected sites in FOXP2. Molecular Biology
and Evolution.
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Clark, V.J., Ptak, S.E., Tiemann, I., Qian, Y., Coop, G., Stone, A.C., Przeworski, M.,
Arnheim, N., Di Rienzo, A. 2007. Combining sperm typing and linkage
disequilibrium analyses reveals differences in selective pressures or
recombination rates across human populations. Genetics 175: 795–804.
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Green, R.E., J. Krause, S.E. Ptak, A.W. Briggs,
M.T. Ronan, J.F. Simons, L. Du, M. Egholm, J.M. Rothberg, M. Paunovic, S.
Pääbo. 2006. Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA. Nature
444: 330-336.
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Hellmann, I., K.
Prūfer, H. Ji, M.C. Zody, S. Pääbo, S.E. Ptak. 2005. Why do human
diversity levels vary at a megabase scale? Genome Research 15: 1222-1231.
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Ptak, S.E., D.A. Hinds,
K. Koehler, B. Nickel, N. Patil, D.G. Ballinger, M. Przeworski*, K.A. Frazer*,
and S. Pääbo*. 2005. Fine-scale recombination patterns differ between
chimpanzees and humans. Nature Genetics 37: 429-434.
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Ptak, S.E.*, A.D.
Roeder*, M. Stephens, Y. Gilad, S. Pääbo and M. Przeworski. 2004. Absence
of the TAP2 human recombination hotspot in chimpanzees. PLoS 2:
849-855.
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Ptak, S.E., K. Voelpel,
and M. Przeworski. 2004. Insights into recombination from patterns of
linkage disequilibrium in humans. Genetics 167: 387-397.
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Hellmann, I. I. Ebersberger, S.E. Ptak, S. Pääbo, and M. Przeworski. 2003. Mutation and recombination are
associated processes in humans. American Journal of Human Genetics 72:
1527-1535
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Ptak, S.E. and M.
Przeworski. 2002. Evidence for population growth in humans is confounded by
fine-scale population structure. Trends in Genetics 18: 559-563.
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Ptak, S.E. and D. Petrov.
2002. How intron splicing affects the insertion and deletion profile in Drosophila
melanogaster. Genetics 162: 1233-1244.
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Ptak, S.E. and M. Lachmann.
2002. On the evolution of polygamy: a theoretical examination of the
polygamy threshold model. Behavioral Ecology 14:201-211. Santa Fe Institute
Working Paper 01-01-001.
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Marks, R.W. and S.E.
Ptak. 2001. The maintenance of single-locus polymorphism.
V. Sex-dependent viabilities. Selection 1: 217-228.
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* These authors
contributed equally.
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