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Gregory Allan Wray
Professor of Biology
Biology
gwray@duke.edu
Duke Box 90325, Durham, NC 27708-0325
125 Science Drive, 4104 French Family Science Center, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Grants
Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria)
Research
Co-Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2024 - 2028
Embryonic Cell Recognition: Specificity Determinants
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ·
1980 - 2028
Roles for uniquely human enhancers in brain development and Wnt signaling
Research
Collaborator ·
Awarded by National Institute of Mental Health ·
2023 - 2027
Evolutionary dynamics of zoonotic malaria
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ·
2023 - 2027
Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2001 - 2027
Collaborative Research: RoL: The intersection between cell fate decisions and phenotypic diversification in a rapidly radiating butterfly lineage
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2021 - 2026
Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2021 - 2026
Characterizing new redox roles for protein ubiquitination in human cells
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2022 - 2025
Evolution of a developmental gene regulatory network during a life history switch in Heliocidaris
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2019 - 2025
Genomics, variation, and evolution of cerebellar circuits linked to higher cognitive functions in humans
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2021 - 2025
The Duke FUNCTION Center: Pioneering the comprehensive identification of combinatorial noncoding causes of disease
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Human Genome Research Institute ·
2020 - 2025
Genetic and Genomics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2020 - 2025
Summer Scholars in Genome Sciences & Medicine
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2017 - 2025
PacBio Sequel IIe for GCB Sequencing Core
Equipment
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2023 - 2024
Natural Selection in Admixed Populations
Fellowship
Co-Sponsor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2020 - 2023
Postdoctoral Training in Genomic Medicine Research
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2017 - 2023
IRES Track 1 IRTG Engaged in Dissecting and Reengineering the Regulatory Genome
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2019 - 2023
Impacts of the African Origin of Plasmodium vivax on Contemporary Parasite Populations
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill ·
2017 - 2023
NRT: Integrative Bioinformatics for Investigating and Engineering Microbiomes (IBIEM)
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2015 - 2021
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2005 - 2021
Genetics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
1979 - 2020
Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Mentor ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
1975 - 2020
Decoding schizophrenia-From GWAS to functional regulatory variants
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2014 - 2019
Global Genetic Diversity Study for Malaria
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Naval Medical Research Center ·
2017 - 2018
Evolutionary Rewiring of a Developmental Gene Regulatory Network
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2015 - 2018
Genetics and Evolution of Fetal Human Fat Accretion During Development
Research
Investigator ·
Awarded by Northwestern University ·
2013 - 2018
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigation of the Evolution of Human Adipocytes Using iPSCs
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2017 - 2018
HARDAC+:Reproducible HPC for next-generation genomics
Equipment
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center ·
2016 - 2017
Collaborative Research: Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2011 - 2015
Automated Library Preparation System for Next-Generation Sequencing
Equipment
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center ·
2014 - 2015
Collaborative Research: Genetic Bases for the Evolution of Human Diet
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2008 - 2014
Truncated GLI1 In Glioblastoma
Research
Collaborator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2014 - 2014
Collaborative Research: Genes, environment and gene expression in a wild primate population
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2009 - 2013
Cross-species analysis of myocardial susceptibility to perioperative stress
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2007 - 2013
Modeling the structure & evolution of regulatory regions in eukaryotic genomes
Research
Consultant ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2007 - 2013
Illumina Hi-Seq 2000 Sequencing System
Equipment
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2012 - 2013
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Selection, drift, and constraint in the evolution of a developmental regulatory gene network
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2009 - 2012
Evolutionary Genetics of a Sea Urchin Skeletogenic Gene Network
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2006 - 2010
High-performance Computing System for Bioinformatics
Equipment
Major User ·
Awarded by National Institutes of Health ·
2009 - 2010
REU Site: Explorations in the Genome Sciences
Inst. Training Prgm or CME
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2006 - 2010
Dissertation Research: Contribution of Mutations within Cis-Regulatory DNA to Molecular Phenotype and Organismal Fitness
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2005 - 2007
Evolution of Endo 16 promoter function within camarodont sea urchins
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ·
2002 - 2006
Population Genetics of Promoter Sequences in Echinoids
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2006
Workshop on Developmental Physiology
Conference
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2004 - 2005
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Molecular evolution of the Endo16 cis-regulatory system (J. Balhoff)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2002 - 2005
High-throughput determination of position weight matrices
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2004 - 2005
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The structure of heritable variation in developmental gene expression in the purple urchin
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2003 - 2004
Dissertation Research: Evolution and Development of Left-Right Asymmetry in Echinoderms
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2001 - 2003
REU Supplement: Molecular bases for the evolution of new developmental roles in two homeobox genes
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2000 - 2003
Evolution of a Gene Regulatory System: Structural and Functional Analyses of Evolutionary Diversification of the Endo 16 Promoter
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration ·
1999 - 2002
Doctoral Dissertation: The Evolutionary and Developmental Genetic Basis of Wing Polymorphisms in Ants
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2000 - 2002
Molecular bases for the evolution of new developmental roles in two homeobox genes
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2000 - 2001
