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Matt Barker<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
Graduate Student<\/p>\n
msbarke@g.clemson.edu<\/p>\n
Biosketch<\/strong><\/h2>\nI am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii<\/em>, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in Dr. Benjamin White\u2019s lab. Here, I studied the neural and genetic underpinnings of Drosophila<\/em> ecdysis. I eventually made my way to Savannah, Georgia, where I worked as an environmental chemical analyst. I am now a member of Kelsey Witt Dillon\u2019s lab at Clemson University earning a Ph.D. in the department of genetics and biochemistry.<\/p>\nResearch Interests<\/strong><\/h2>\nMy Ph.D. research will be conducted under Dr. Kelsey Witt Dillon and will broadly be concerned with human population genetics. As humans inhabited the Earth, they were put under selective pressures to adapt genetically to their local environments. I am interested in using modern-day and ancient DNA datasets to identify and characterize local adaptation in human genomes. This can provide important information on health and can improve our understanding of human evolution.<\/p>\n
Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\nSullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graduate Student msbarke@g.clemson.edu Biosketch I am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_1624\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"243\"] Matt Barker[\/caption]\r\n\r\nGraduate Student\r\n\r\nmsbarke@g.clemson.edu\r\n
Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nI am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii<\/em>, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in Dr. Benjamin White\u2019s lab. Here, I studied the neural and genetic underpinnings of Drosophila<\/em> ecdysis. I eventually made my way to Savannah, Georgia, where I worked as an environmental chemical analyst. I am now a member of Kelsey Witt Dillon\u2019s lab at Clemson University earning a Ph.D. in the department of genetics and biochemistry.\r\nResearch Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nMy Ph.D. research will be conducted under Dr. Kelsey Witt Dillon and will broadly be concerned with human population genetics. As humans inhabited the Earth, they were put under selective pressures to adapt genetically to their local environments. I am interested in using modern-day and ancient DNA datasets to identify and characterize local adaptation in human genomes. This can provide important information on health and can improve our understanding of human evolution.\r\nPublications<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nSullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Research Interests<\/strong><\/h2>\nMy Ph.D. research will be conducted under Dr. Kelsey Witt Dillon and will broadly be concerned with human population genetics. As humans inhabited the Earth, they were put under selective pressures to adapt genetically to their local environments. I am interested in using modern-day and ancient DNA datasets to identify and characterize local adaptation in human genomes. This can provide important information on health and can improve our understanding of human evolution.<\/p>\n
Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\nSullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graduate Student msbarke@g.clemson.edu Biosketch I am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_1624\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"243\"] Matt Barker[\/caption]\r\n\r\nGraduate Student\r\n\r\nmsbarke@g.clemson.edu\r\n
Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nI am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii<\/em>, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in Dr. Benjamin White\u2019s lab. Here, I studied the neural and genetic underpinnings of Drosophila<\/em> ecdysis. I eventually made my way to Savannah, Georgia, where I worked as an environmental chemical analyst. I am now a member of Kelsey Witt Dillon\u2019s lab at Clemson University earning a Ph.D. in the department of genetics and biochemistry.\r\nResearch Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nMy Ph.D. research will be conducted under Dr. Kelsey Witt Dillon and will broadly be concerned with human population genetics. As humans inhabited the Earth, they were put under selective pressures to adapt genetically to their local environments. I am interested in using modern-day and ancient DNA datasets to identify and characterize local adaptation in human genomes. This can provide important information on health and can improve our understanding of human evolution.\r\nPublications<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nSullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Sullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graduate Student msbarke@g.clemson.edu Biosketch I am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_1624\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"243\"] Matt Barker[\/caption]\r\n\r\nGraduate Student\r\n\r\nmsbarke@g.clemson.edu\r\nBiosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nI am originally from East Helena, Montana and attended the University of Montana where I received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology. During my undergraduate, I helped conduct research on Coxiella burnetii<\/em>, a bacterial pathogen that causes Q fever in humans and livestock. After graduating, I worked as a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland in Dr. Benjamin White\u2019s lab. Here, I studied the neural and genetic underpinnings of Drosophila<\/em> ecdysis. I eventually made my way to Savannah, Georgia, where I worked as an environmental chemical analyst. I am now a member of Kelsey Witt Dillon\u2019s lab at Clemson University earning a Ph.D. in the department of genetics and biochemistry.\r\n
Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nMy Ph.D. research will be conducted under Dr. Kelsey Witt Dillon and will broadly be concerned with human population genetics. As humans inhabited the Earth, they were put under selective pressures to adapt genetically to their local environments. I am interested in using modern-day and ancient DNA datasets to identify and characterize local adaptation in human genomes. This can provide important information on health and can improve our understanding of human evolution.\r\n
Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nSullivan, L. F., Barker, M. S., Felix, P. C., Vuong, R. Q. & White, B. H. Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem? FEBS Journal<\/em> vol. 291 1049\u20131079 at https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/febs.16650 (2024).","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}