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Hire Dr. David M.
United States
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Phylogenetics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics - NSF-funded - 20+ years experience

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting
Research User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics
Product Development Formulation, Product Validation, Concept Development
Work Experience

Department Head & Professor

University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

June 2013 - Present

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (pro bono)

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith

August 2016 - August 2021

Senior Research Scientist and Corporate Development

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

August 2007 - June 2013

Research Professor

Colby College, Waterville, Maine

January 2010 - January 2012

Assistant Professor / Associate Professor

Brigham Young University

January 2001 - August 2007

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo

March 1999 - December 2000

Education

PhD Phylogenetics & Molecular Evolution

Louisiana State University

August 1994 - March 1999

MS Genetics

Brigham Young University

January 1992 - August 1994

BS Zoology

Brigham Young University

September 1985 - December 1991

Certifications
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
McClellan DA(2013). Directional Darwinian Selection in proteins . BMC bioinformatics.
McClellan DA(2012). Detecting molecular selection on single amino acid replacements . International journal of bioinformatics research and applications.
McClellan DA, Ellison DD(2010). Assessing and improving the accuracy of detecting protein adaptation with the TreeSAAP analytical software . International journal of bioinformatics research and applications.
Lewis-Rogers N, McClellan DA, Crandall KA(2008). The evolution of foot-and-mouth disease virus: impacts of recombination and selection . Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases.
Balzotti MRB, Thornton JN, Maughan PJ, McClellan DA, Stevens MR, Jellen EN, Fairbanks DJ, Coleman CE(2008). Expression and evolutionary relationships of the Chenopodium quinoa 11S seed storage protein gene . International journal of plant sciences.
Carroll H, Beckstead W, O'Connor T, Ebbert M, Clement M, Snell Q, McClellan D(2007). DNA reference alignment benchmarks based on tertiary structure of encoded proteins . Bioinformatics (Oxford, England).
Baer KK, McClellan DA(2007). Molecular coevolution of the vertebrate cytochrome c(1) and Rieske iron sulphur protein in the cytochrome bc(1) complex . International journal of bioinformatics research and applications.
Ebbert MT, Beckstead WA, O'Connor TD, Clement MJ, McClellan DA(2007). Pharmacogenomics: analysing SNPs in the CYP2D6 gene using amino acid properties . International journal of bioinformatics research and applications.
Chamala S, Beckstead WA, Rowe MJ, McClellan DA(2007). Evolutionary selective pressure on three mitochondrial SNPs is consistent with their influence on metabolic efficiency in Pima Indians . International journal of bioinformatics research and applications.
Porter ML, Cronin TW, McClellan DA, Crandall KA(2006). Molecular characterization of crustacean visual pigments and the evolution of pancrustacean opsins . Molecular biology and evolution.
Pérez-Losada M, Christensen RG, McClellan DA, Adams BJ, Viscidi RP, Demma JC, Crandall KA(2006). Comparing phylogenetic codivergence between polyomaviruses and their hosts . Journal of virology.
Crandall KA, Pérez-Losada M, Christensen RG, McClellan DA, Viscidi RP(2006). Phylogenomics and molecular evolution of polyomaviruses . Advances in experimental medicine and biology.
Edmondson AC, Song D, Alvarez LA, Wall MK, Almond D, McClellan DA, Maxwell A, Nielsen BL(2005). Characterization of a mitochondrially targeted single-stranded DNA-binding protein in Arabidopsis thaliana . Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG.
McClellan DA, Palfreyman EJ, Smith MJ, Moss JL, Christensen RG, Sailsbery JK(2004). Physicochemical evolution and molecular adaptation of the cetacean and artiodactyl cytochrome b proteins . Molecular biology and evolution.
Woolley S, Johnson J, Smith MJ, Crandall KA, McClellan DA(2003). TreeSAAP: selection on amino acid properties using phylogenetic trees . Bioinformatics (Oxford, England).
McClellan DA(2000). The phylogenetic utility of the codon-degeneracy model . Journal of molecular evolution.
McClellan DA(2000). The codon-degeneracy model of molecular evolution . Journal of molecular evolution.