Mark Stoneking

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Mark Stoneking

updatde 2nd January 2012

date of birth: August 1, 1956

Educational History

University of Oregon	1974-1977	Anthropology	B.A.

The Pennsylvania State University	1977-1979	Genetics	M.S.

University of Wisconsin, Madison	1979-1981	Genetics	-

University of California, Berkeley	1981-1986	Genetics	Ph.D.

Professional History

1999-present	Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Honorary Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

1998	Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

1996-1997	Visiting Professor, Zoology Institute, University of Munich

1994-1998	Associate Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

1990-1994	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Genetics, and Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

1989-1990	Associate Research Scientist, Dept. of Human Genetics, Cetus Corporation, Emeryville, California

1989	Staff Scientist, Human Genome Center, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley

1986-1988	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Fellowships, Prizes and Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1977-1978, 1979-1981
Pennsylvania State University Graduate Fellowship, 1978-1979
Ernest Brown Babcock Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, 1985-1986
John Belling Prize in Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
University of Oregon Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, 1990
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 1995
FBI Award for Service to the Forensic DNA Community, 1998
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000

Fieldwork

Eastern Indonesia, January – February 1988
Solomon Islands, August – September 2004
Mindanao, Philippines, August 2005
Zambia, August – September 2007
Namibia, May-June 2011

Professional Activities

Associate Editor: Journal of Human Evolution, 1990 – 1993; Human Biology, 1993 – 1997; BioEssays, 2004 – present; Anthropological Science, 2004 – present; Evolutionary Biology, 2007 – present; BMC Genetics, 2008 – present; Gene, 2009 – 2010; Investigative Genetics, 2009 – present; EMBO Reports, 2010 – present; Language Dynamics and Change, 2010 – present.

Senior Editor, Annals of Human Genetics, 2008 – present.

Technical Working Group, DNA Analysis Methods, FBI, 1993 – 1998

Defense Science Board Task Force on DNA Technology for Identification of Ancient Remains, 1994 – 1995

Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Panel, 2001 – 2005

Steering Committee for National Energy Research Council (NERC) Program on Environmental Factors and the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal (EFCHED), 2001 – 2006

Review Panel, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2007 – 2008

Advisory Committee, The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 2008 – present

Advisory Board, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2011 – present

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Program on Forensics and Ethnicity, Philippine Genome Center, 2011 - present