Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. David and Lyn Silfen University Associate Professor Departments of Genetics and Biology School of Medicine School of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania Mailing Address: Department of Genetics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 428 Clinical Research Building 415 Curie Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19104-6145 tishkoff@mail.med.upenn.edu

Education and Positions Current Editorial and Advisory Board Honors Funding Invited presentations Courses

Education and Positions:

B.S. 1989 Anthropology/Genetics, University of California at Berkeley

M.Phil. 1991 Department of Genetics, Yale Medical School, Yale University 

Ph.D. 1996 Department of Genetics, Yale Medical School, Yale University (Kenneth Kidd advisor)

Postdoc 1997-2000 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University (Andrew Clark advisor)

Assistant Professor 2000 – 2005, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Associate Professor 2005 – 2007, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

David and Lyn Silfen University Associate Professor 2008 – present, Departments of Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Current Editorial and Advisory Boards:

2007 – present: Consultation and Oversight Group for the new NHGRI Sample Repository at Coriell, NHGRI, NIH

2007 – present: Editorial Board, Genome Research Journal

2005 – present: Associate Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution Journal

2006 – present: Member of advisory panel for “The New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database”, organized by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Afro-American studies program, Harvard University

Honors:

• U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Honors
• U.C. Berkeley University High Honors
• U.C. Berkeley President's Undergraduate Fellowship 1987
• National Institutes of Health Predoctoral traineeship 1989-1994
• DAAD/Fulbright Predoctoral fellowship for research in Germany 1991/1992
• NSF Sloan Postdoctoral fellowship in molecular evolution 1996-1998
• Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences1998-2005  
• David and Lucile Packard Career Award in Science and Engineering 2001-2006 
• University of Maryland College of Life Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for Junior Faculty 2003
• Featured as one of the “Ten Most Brilliant” young scientists in the U.S. by Popular Science Magazine, September, 2003.
• Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Associate Professor endowed chair, University of Pennsylvania, January 2008
• Research featured in assorted TV and radio reports including two documentaries shown on Discovery channel and PBS, radio interviews on the BBC, NPR, WTOP, CBC radio in Canada, and the Koji Nnamdi show on WAMU in Washington D.C. 
• Research featured in a number of newspaper and journal articles including Science, Nature, New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, LA Times, Washington Times, US News and World Report, The Economist, National Geographic, Popular Science, Science News, Discovery News, American Scientist, Scientific American, Newsday, among others.

Current Funding:

• Human Frontiers in Science Research Grant, “Molecular, statistical, and bioinformatics analysis of Plasmodium and human genome co-evolution”, (PI, co-PIs are Philip Awadalla, Gil McVean, Anna Tramantano), 12/2006 – 11/2009
• NIH R01 (PI), NIGMS, “Genetic variation at malarial resistance genes in Africans”, 2006 – 2009
• NIH R01 (co-PI, Carlos Bustamante PI), “Association mapping in structured populations”, 2008 – 2011.
• Keck Foundation “The Co-Evolution of Human and Plasmodium Genomic Interactions” (Co-PI, Awadalla PI), 2006 – 2007
• NSF Physical Anthropology (PI) “Genetic history of East Africa”, 2006 – 2008
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation Career Award “Global patterns of genetic variation in humans:  implications for the study of human origins and human disease” 2001 – 2007 (PI)

Invited Presentations:

2009
Workshop on ELSI issues in Natural Selection Research (October)
Keynote Speaker, Seminar Series in honor of Darwin, Case Western University (April)
AAAS Meeting Chicago (February)
Symposium in honor of Darwin's Birthday, Penn Human Frontiers Genome Institute, University of Pennsylvania (February)

2008
Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis Meeting, Toronto, Canada (September)
Evolution of Infectious Disease symposium, Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution meeting, Barcelona, Spain (June)
Symposium on Evolution and Medicine, NIGMS, NIH (May)
Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University (April)
Next Steps for Plasmodium Post-Genomic Research Meeting, London, UK (April)
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) and the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID) of Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions (March)
Genes, Genomes, and Pediatric Disease (GGPD) seminar series, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania (March)
Keystone Symposium on Complex Traits: Biologic and Therapeutic Insights, Santa Fe, New Mexico (March)

2007
Banbury Center workshop on: “From Statistics to Genes: Figuring out the Molecular Basis of Complex Traits”, CSHL, New York (November)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH (October)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. (September)
Human Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference, Newport RI (July)
US Naval Observatory, Washington D.C. (May)
Symposium on “Genetics of Infectious Disease”, HUGO meeting, Montreal, CA (May)
Keynote speaker, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Symposium on “Evolutionary Biology and Human Health”, Washington D.C. (May)
Biology of the Genome meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY (May)
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Genetics (March)
Rutgers University, Department of Genetics (February)
Program in Human Genetics, University of Maryland, Baltimore (February)

2006
Frontiers in Biology Seminar Series, Department of Genetics, Stanford University (November)
Symposium on natural selection and infectious disease, American Society of Human Genetics meeting, New Orleans (October)
Workshop on “The Genomic Revolution and the Origin of Humanity”, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (August)
NHGRI, NIH (June)

2005
Department of Biology, Duke University (December)
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.(December)
Invited Instructor, Mammalian Genetics Course, Jackson Labs, Bar Harbor, Maine. (July)
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington D.C (May).
Symposium on “Bridging theory and data in the context of anthropological  genetics”, AAPA meeting, Milwaukee, WI.(April)
Marshfield Medical Research Institute, Marshfield, WI.(April)
Monell Chemical Senses Center, University of Pennsylvania (January)

2004
Invited by graduate students in the Biological Sciences Program as part of their "Women in Science" (WISS) seminar series, Case-Western University. (November)
American Association of Anthropology workshop on Race and Genetics, Washington D.C. (September)
Symposium on The Future of Human and Medical Genetics Based on Contributions of Arno G. Motulsky, Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine (May)
The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR), Rockville, MD (February)
Symposium on Human Ecological Immunity: Models and Methods for Future Research, AAPA/HBA meetings, Tampa, Florida (April)
Symposium on “Genomics and Society: Implications for the future health of Africa” Cairo, Egypt (March)
Workshop on Race and Genetics, NIGR, NIH, Bethesda, MD (March)
Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (February)
Gordon Conference on Molecular Evolution, Ventura, CA. (February)

2003
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania (November)
Biosciences Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (November)
Symposium on host/pathogen coevolution, sponsored by the Genetics and Genomics Training Grant, Harvard University. (October)
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Baltimore, MD (June)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, Baltimore, MD (June)
Workshop on genetic and linguistic history of Bantu populations of Africa, University of Lyon, Lyon, France. (May)
National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD. (April)
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University (March)
Distinguished speaker, Computational Molecular Biology Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University (March)
Distinguished Lecture Series, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, MD (March)
US/Egyptian Joint Workshop on Anthropology, Cairo, Egypt. (February)

2002

Biosciences Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park (November)
Meeting on East African Genetics, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, The Sudan. (November)
Whitehead Press Seminar, MIT, Boston, MA (October)
5th International Meeting on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Complex Genome Analysis, Reykjavik, Iceland. (October)
Keynote Speaker, Third MeHarry/Vanderbilt Alliance Genetics Symposium, Nashville, TN (September)
Packard Foundation Career Awardee Meeting, Monterey, CA. (September)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH, Bethesda, MD (June)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Rockville, MD. (June)
Symposium on Theoretical and Empirical Advances in the Study of Effective Population Size, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (May)
Symposium on “Northeast African Biocultural diversity”, American Association of Physical Anthropology, Buffalo, NY (April)
Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. (April)
Department of Human Genetics, Univeristy of Maryland at Baltimore. (February)

2001
Invited participant in panel discussion on “Where do people come from and how do we know?  Reconciling Interdisciplinary approaches to questions of origins”, American Association of Anthropology. Washington D.C. (November) 
Symposium on African Genetic Diversity, American Society of Human Genetics Meetings, San Diego, CA. (October)
Symposium on “Human Dimensions of Biodiversity”, sponsored by the Human Biology Assoc. and the International Assoc. of Human Biology, Kansas City, MO (March)
Symposium on “Know Thyself: The Human Genome Project”, sponsored by the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest, Hampden Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA (February)

2000
Department of Anatomy, Howard University Medical School, Washington D.C. (December)
Symposium on “Modern Human Origins”, organized by Dr. C. Loring Brace, American Association of Physical Anthropology meeting, San Antonio, TX. (April)

1999
Symposium on “The Emergence of Modern Human Form”, organized by Dr. C. Loring Brace, American Association of Anthropologists meeting, Chigaco, Ill. (November)
Department of Molecular Biology and Development, Cornell University (June)
Department of Biology, New York University (June)
Symposium on “Genome Diversity and Evolution” organized by Dr. Masatoshi Nei, in conjunction with the 1999 annual meeting of the American Genetic Association, Penn State University. (June)
Symposium on “Pattern and Implications of Human Genetic Variation” organized by Dr. Joanna Mountain, Stanford University, Department of Anthropological Sciences. (May)
National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD (February)
Department of Biology, University of Maryland (February)
American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, Symposium on “The Emergence of Modern Human Form” organized by Dr. Loring Brace (January)

1998
Trinational Workshop of Molecular Evolution, Vancouver, CA. (June)
American Association of Anthropological Genetics/American Association of Physical Anthropology, Symposium on Genetics and Origins of Human Diversity (April)
University of Connecticut at Storrs, Department of Anthropology (May)
Mt. Sinai Medical School, Department of Human Genetics, New York, NY (February)
University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology (February)
Columbia University, Department of Anthropology (January)

1997
University of Pretoria, Department of Mammalian Genetics, South Africa (August)
University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Human Genetics (August)
Trinational Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Munich, Germany (June)
Human Biology Association meeting, Symposium on “Interpreting Patterns of Human Genetic Diversity”, St. Louis, MO (April)
Stanford University, Department of Anthropology (February)
University of Barcelona, Department of Biological Sciences (January)

1996
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (February)

1995
Penn State University, Department of Anthropology (September)
Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology (April)
Sapienza University, Rome, Department of Biology (February)
University of Munich, Department of Zoology (January)
Oxford University, Department of Genetics, John Radcliffe Hospital (January)

Courses

Biology of the Human Genome, Human Evolutionary Genetics, Topics in Human Genetics