Mark N. Grote
Sr Statistician, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616, USA
Fax: (530) 752-8885
Office Hours for Spring 2012:
- drop-in during regular university hours, or by appointment.
Education:
- I studied math, statistics and genetics as an undergraduate at the University of Washington, and stayed there to get a M.S. in Statistics. My master's thesis advisor was Joe Felsenstein of the Department of Genetics. I worked as an applied statistician in the Department of Physical Anthropology at UW for a couple of years before going to UC-Berkeley in the early 1990's for more graduate school. My Ph.D. advisors at Berkeley were Glenys Thomson (Integrative Biology) and Terry Speed (Statistics). At UC-Davis I was a post-doctoral researcher in Evolution and Ecology for several years, supervised by John Gillespie and Chuck Langley.
Biography:
Research Interests
I started out as a statistical population geneticist, investigating selection at the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci and the connection between linkage disequilibrium and population structure. But I've become more of a generalist after interacting with faculty and students in the Department of Anthropology. My current projects are varied: I'm working with a dataset of Mayan monument dedication dates, helping with analysis of two large time-allocation datasets collected in Peru and Nicaragua, and working closely with students on several dissertation projects. Multi-level modeling and computational tools like the Gibbs Sampler are common elements of my work.
Recent Publications
Towner, M.C., M.N. Grote, J. Venti and M. Borgerhoff Mulder (in press at Human Nature) Cultural macroevolution on neighbor graphs: vertical and horizontal transmission among Western North American Indian societies.
Chambers, K.J., S.B. Brush, M.N. Grote and P. Gepts (2007) Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) landrace persistence in the Bajio of Mexico: A survey of 1940s and 1950s collection locations. Economic Botany 61(1):60-72.
