Gregory Wray

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Dr Gregory Wray is Director of the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy's Center for Evolutionary Genomics and Professor of Biology at Duke University.

EDUCATION:
Dr Wray received his PhD in Biology from Duke University in 1987, and was Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1993-1999. He returned to Duke in 1999, and is Professor of Biology.

AWARDS:
He was the recipient of a Young Investigator Award in Molecular Evolution from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation for his work on the evolutionary genetics of animal development.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
He is co-founder and associate editor of the journal Evolution & Development and is currently on the editorial boards of Development, Genes, and Evolution, and the Quarterly Review of Biology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The diversity of life is the inspiration for my research. What kinds of mutations underlie trait variation? How do they exert their influence on molecular, cellular, and developmental process to affect organismal traits and fitness? What population processes and ecological circumstances favor the persistence of these mutations?

HOME PAGE
http://www.genome.duke.edu/people/faculty/wray/