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Academic History:
2014-           Temple University: Assistant Research Professor; Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics
2011-2014    University of California Los Angeles: Research Associate; Labs of John Novembre and Victoria Sork
2008-2011    University of Southern California: Postdoctoral Research Associate; Lab of Magnus Nordborg.
2009-2010    Gregor Mendel Institute: Visiting Scholar.
2007           Visiting Scholar, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
2005-2008    University of Southern California: Postdoctoral Research Associate; Center of Excellence in Genome Science.
1999-2005    Harvard University: Ph.D. in Theoretical Population Genetics; Advised by John Wakeley.
1995-1999    University of Pennsylvania: B.A. in Mathematical Biology; Advised by Warren Ewens.

Publications and Manuscripts:

Platt, Alexander; Hey, Jody. Estimating the ages of singletons and other rare alleles. In preparation.

Platt, Alexander; Gugger, Paul; Pellegrini, Matteo; Sork, Victoria. 2015. Genome-wide signature of local adaptation linked to variable CpG methylation in oak populations. Molecular Ecology 24:3823-3830.

Brachi, Benjamin; Meyers, Christopher; Villoutreix, Romain; Platt, Alexander; Roux, Fabrice; Bergelson, Joy. 2015. Co-selected genes determine adaptive variation in herbivore resistance throughout the native range of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:4032-4037. 

Yang, Wen-Yun; Platt, Alexander; Wen-Kai Chiang, Charleston; Eskin, Eleazar; Novembre, John; Pasaniuc, Bogdan. 2014. Spatial localization of recent ancestors for admixed individuals. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 4:2505-2518.

Lovell, John; Juenger, Thomas; Michaels, Scott; Lasky, Jesse; Platt, Alexander; Richards, James; Yu, Xuhong; Easlon, Hsien; Sen, Saunak; McKay, John. 2013. Protagonistic pleiotropy of FRIGIDA promotes adaptation and positive assortative mating. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280:20131043.

Platt, Alexander; Novembre, John. 2012. A new era of human population genetics. Genome Biology, 13:182.

Korte, Arthur; Vilhjalmsson, Bjarni; Segura, Vincent; Platt, Alexander; Long, Quan; Nordborg, Magnus. 2012. A mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies of correlated traits in structured populations. Nature Genetics 44:1066-71. Segura, Vincent; Vilhjalmsson, Bjarni; Platt, Alexander; Korte, Arthur; Seren, Umit; Long, Quan; Nordborg, Magnus. 2012. Efficient mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies in structured populations. Nature Genetics 44:825–830. Horton, Matthew; Hancock, Angela; Huang, Yu, Atwell, Susanna; Toomajian, Christopher; Auton, Adam; Platt, Alexander; Spreone, F Gianluca; Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni; Nordborg, Magnus; Borevitz, Justin; Bergelson, Joy. 2012. Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in worldwide Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from the RegMap panel. Nature Genetics 44:212–216.

Anastasio, Alison*; Platt, Alexander*; Horton, Matthew; Grotewold, Erich; Scholl, Randy; Borevitz, Justin; Nordborg, Magnus; Bergelson, Joy. 2011. Source verification of misidentified Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. The Plant Journal 67:554-566.

Platt, Alexander; Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni; Nordborg, Magnus. 2010. Conditions under which genome-wide association mapping will be positively misleading. Genetics 186:1-8.

Platt, Alexander; Horton, Matthew; Huang, Yu; Li, Yan; Anastasio, Alison; Mulyati, Ni Wayan; Aagren, Jon; Bossdorf, Oliver; Byers, Diane,; Donohue, Kathleen, Dunning, Megan; Holub, Eric; Hudson, Andrew; Le Corre, Valerie; Loudet, Olivier; Roux, Fabrice; Warthmann, Norman; Weigel, Detlef; Rivero, Luz; Scholl, Randy; Nordborg, Magnus; Bergelson, Joy; Borevitz, Justin. 2010. The scale of population structure in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 6(2): e1000843.

Atwell, Susanna; Huang, Yu; Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni; Willems, Glenda; Horton, Matthew; Li, Yan; Meng, Dazhe; Platt, Alexander; Tarone, Aaron; Hu, Tina; Jiang, Rong; Muliyati, Ni Wayan; Zhang, Xu; Amer, Muhammed Ali; Baxter, Ivan; Brachi, Benjamin; Chory, Joanne; Dean, Caroline; Debiew, Marilyne; de Meaux, Juliette; Ecker, Joseph; Faure, Nathalie; Kniskern, Joel; Jones, Jonathan; Michael, Todd; Nemri, Adnane; Roux, Fabrice; Salt, David; Tang, Chunlao; Todesco, Marco; Traw, M. Brian; Weigel, Detlef; Marjoram, Paul; Borevitz, Justin; Bergelson, Joy; Nordborg, Magnus. 2010. Genome-wide Association Study of 107 Phenotypes in a common set of Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines. Nature 465, 627-631 doi:10.1038/nature08800.

Platt, Alexander. 2007. Association mapping through heuristic evolutionary history reconstruction. BMC Proceedings 1(Suppl 1):S131.

Ziegler, A.; DeStefano, AL; Koenig, IR; Bardel, C; Brinza, D; Bull, S; Cai, Z; Jiang, W; Lee, KE, Li, CX; Li, J; Li, X; Marjoram, P; Meng, Y; Nicodemus, KK; Platt, A; Schwarz, DF; Shi, W; Shugart, YY; Stassen, HH; Sun, YV; Won, S; Wang, W; Wahba, G; Zagaar, UA; Zhao, Z. 2007. Data mining, neural nets, trees -- problems 2 and 3 of Genetic Analysis Workshop 15.  Genet Epidemiol. 31 Suppl 1:S51-60.

de Andrade, Mariza; Allen, Andrew; Brinza, Dimitru; Cheng, Rong; Da, Yang; de Vries, Andre; Ewhida, Adel; Feng, Zeny; Jung, Hsuan; Hsieh, Hsin-Ju; Koehler, Karola; Lio, Youfang; Lio-Mares, Wen; Luan; Jian'an; Marquard, Vivien; Nolte, Ilja; Oh, Sohee; Platt, Alexander; Qin, Xuejun; Yoo, Yun Joo; Yuan, Ao; Tian; Xin; Won, Sungho. 2007. Summary of contributions to GAW15 Group 13: candidate gene association studies. Genet Epidemiol. 31 Suppl 1:S110-7.

*equal contributions
**undergraduate advisee


Teaching Experience:
2014-2015 Mentor, NIH Minority Access to Research Careers program.
2014 Guest lecturer, Temple University Biology 8003: Introduction to Graduate Research.
2012 Guest lecturer, UCLA EEB 135/235: Population Genetics.
2008 Guest lecturer, Keck School of Medicine at USC: Bayesian Computational Methods in Population Genetics.
2004 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Organismic and Evolutionary Biology 275: Natural Selection at the Molecular Level.
2002 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Core Curriculum 50: Evolution. A science class for non-scientist undergraduates.
2000 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Biological Sciences 252: Coalescence Theory.
1999 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University Biological Sciences 2: Introduction to Organismic Biology.*
*I received a certificate for excellence in teaching for my work in this class.

Professional Activities:
Reviewer for:
  • Nature Genetics
  • American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Genome Research
  • Annals of Applied Statistics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Public Library of Science Genetics
  • Public Library of Science Computational Biology
  • Public Library of Science One
  • Molecular Ecology†
  • Evolution
  • Human Genetics
  • Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
  • Gene
  • Genetics
  • Theoretical Population Biology
  • Journal of Computational Biology
  • Bio Med Central: Genetics
        † 2014, 2015 Top reviewer

Academic Conferences:
Oral presentations:
2016        The Allied Genetics Conference (Orlando, FL)
2013        Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Snowbird, UT)
2012  American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting (San Francisco, CA)
2012        1000 Genomes Project Community Meeting (Ann Arbor, MI)
2011         Society for the study of Evolution annual meeting (Norman, OK)
2010 Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting (Salzburg, Austria)
2010 European Plant Science Organization annual meeting (Olos, Finland)
2010 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Portland, OR)
2010 Complex Trait Consortium annual meeting (Chicago, IL)
2009 American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting (Honolulu, HI)
2009 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories symposium on Plant Biology (Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
2006 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (New York, NY)
2005 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Fairbanks, AK)
2004 Population Genetics Group Meeting (Reading, UK)
2004 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Ft. Collins, CO)
2003 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Chico, CA)
2002 Society of Molecular Evolutionary Biology annual meeting (Sorrento, Italy)
2002 Society for the Study of Evolution annual meeting (Champaign-Urbana, IL)

Poster presentations:
2013        Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution annual meeting (San Juan, PR)
2013        Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution annual meeting (Chicago, IL)
2010 Genetics Society of America Model Organism to Human Biology (Boston, MA)
2007 Gordon Research Conference, Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (Ventura, CA)
2006 15th Annual Genome Analysis Workshop (St. Petersburg, FL)
2003 Gordon Research Conference, Evolutionary & Ecological Functional Genomics (New London, NH)
2002 American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting (Baltimore, MD)
2001 Gordon Research Conference, Microbial Population Biology (Williamstown, MA)
2001 Genetics Society Spring meeting (Coventry, UK)
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