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Marcy K. Uyenoyama

Professor of Biology
Biology
Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
130 Science Drive, Room 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Multilocus associations with partial self-fertilization - Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics · December 8, 2022 Invited Talk Stanford University,
Implications of population structure for site frequency spectra · July 2018 International Meeting or Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Yokohama, Japan
The Ewens sampling formula in subdivided populations: Implications for site frequency spectra - Feldmania II Symposium · November 2017 Invited Talk Stanford University,
Sex-specific incompatibility has genome-wide effects on introgression - International Symposium on Molecular Evolution and Medicine · September 2017 International Meeting or Conference Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Computing likelihoods for structured populations - Symposium on MHC Evolution and Human Evolution · July 26, 2014 - July 27, 2014 Invited Talk The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
Multilocus associations with partial self-fertilization - Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics · December 8, 2022 Invited Talk Stanford University,
Implications of population structure for site frequency spectra · July 2018 International Meeting or Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Yokohama, Japan
The Ewens sampling formula in subdivided populations: Implications for site frequency spectra - Feldmania II Symposium · November 2017 Invited Talk Stanford University,
Sex-specific incompatibility has genome-wide effects on introgression - International Symposium on Molecular Evolution and Medicine · September 2017 International Meeting or Conference Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Computing likelihoods for structured populations - Symposium on MHC Evolution and Human Evolution · July 26, 2014 - July 27, 2014 Invited Talk The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
Bayesian Co-estimation of Selfing Rate and Locus-Specific Mutation Rates for a Partially Selfing Population · July 11, 2013 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Chicago, IL
The Post-Modern Synthesis: Forward Models and Backward Inference · May 17, 2013 Lecture University of California at Irvine,
Barriers to neutral introgression generated by local adaptation and sex-specific hybrid in-compatibility - Symposium on Molecular Bases of Speciation · July 27, 2011 - July 27, 2011 Invited Talk Kyoto, Japan
Conflict under absolute linkage: Self-incompatibility in flowering plants · December 20, 2010 Keynote/Named Lecture 2010 Volkswagen Status Symposium, Frauenchiemsee, Germany
Sexual antagonism under absolute linkage: Self-incompatibility in flowering plants · July 9, 2010 Lecture University Research Priority Program Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
On the sampling distribution of genomic summary statistics · December 26, 2009 Lecture Coorg, Karnataka, India
On the origin of self-incompatibility alleles: Genomic conflict under absolute linkage · December 20, 2009 Lecture Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Self-incompatibility in flowering plants: Asexuality and sexual antagonism under complete linkage · July 21, 2009 Lecture Evolution of Sex & Recombination: In Theory and in Practice, Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, Iowa City, Iowa
Conflict under absolute linkage · July 21, 2009 Lecture National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBios), Knoxville, Tennessee
Genomic conflict and DNA sequence variation · June 18, 2009 - June 20, 2009 Lecture Transition Workshop of the SAMSI program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Multilocus measures of association · January 17, 2008 Lecture NESCent Triangle Working Group, Durham, NC
Functional forms for backward migration rates: A model-based approach to the detection of introgression factors - Genomic Patterns and Processes of Introgression · December 17, 2006 - December 19, 2006 International Meeting or Conference NESCent , Durham, NC
Likelihoods from summary statistics - Recombination: Hotspots and Haplotype Structure, Workshop 6 of MBI Emphasis Year on Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics · June 13, 2005 - June 16, 2005 International Meeting or Conference Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, OH
Evolution under tight linkage: Self-incompatibility in plants - Symposium on Sex Genes, Evolution and Speciation · September 9, 2002 - September 16, 2002 International Meeting or Conference International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology VI, Patras, Greece
Interpreting patterns of nucleotide variation in self-incompatibility haplotypes - Theories of Plant Population Genetics Workshop · August 15, 2001 - August 19, 2001 International Meeting or Conference European Science Foundation, Ronbjerg, Denmark

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Judge - North Carolina Central Regional 3A Science and Engineering Fair · 2016 - 2021 Community Outreach Durham Public Schools

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate · August 2, 2021 - August 5, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity,
Organizer, with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, of the symposium "Improving inference frameworks by accounting for population structure"" - SMBE 2018 · July 2018 Event/Organization Administration Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Yokohama, Japan
Member, Advisory Board, Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2012 - 2021 Editorial Activities
Member, Board of Advisors for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) · 2012 - 2015 Committee Service
Editor in Chief, Molecular Biology and Evolution · January 2007 - December 2012 Editorial Activities Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution,
Participant - Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate · August 2, 2021 - August 5, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity,
Organizer, with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, of the symposium "Improving inference frameworks by accounting for population structure"" - SMBE 2018 · July 2018 Event/Organization Administration Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Yokohama, Japan
Member, Advisory Board, Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2012 - 2021 Editorial Activities
Member, Board of Advisors for the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) · 2012 - 2015 Committee Service
Editor in Chief, Molecular Biology and Evolution · January 2007 - December 2012 Editorial Activities Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution,
Associate Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2005 - 2012 Editorial Activities
Member, National Research Service Award Panel · 2001 - 2002 Committee Service National Institutes of Health,
Secretary, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution · January 1999 - December 2003 Committee Service
Organizer, with A. von Haeseler and N. Takahata - US/Germany/Japan Trinational Workshop on Molecular Evolution · June 1997 Event/Organization Administration National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Munich, Germany
Associate Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1996 - 1998 Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, Genetics · 1996 - 2014 Editorial Activities Genetics Society of America,
Member, Special Advisory Panel for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Molecular Evolution · 1996 - 1998 Committee Service National Science Foundation,
Member, National Institutes of Health Reviewers Reserve · 1995 - 1999 Committee Service National Institutes of Health,
Member, Genetics Study Section · 1991 - 1995 Committee Service National Institutes of Health,
Associate Editor, The American Naturalist · 1991 - 1997 Editorial Activities
Councillor, Society for the Study of Evolution · January 1989 - December 1991 Committee Service
Member, National Institutes of Health Reviewers Reserve · 1989 - 1993 Committee Service National Institutes of Health,
Associate Editor, Theoretical Population Biology · 1985 - 2021 Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, Evolution · 1985 - 1988 Editorial Activities
Special Reviewer, Genetics Study Section · 1985 - 1989 Committee Service National Institutes of Health,

Service to Duke


Member, Inclusion and Power Dynamics Planning Group · 2020 - 2022 Professional Development Duke Institute for Brain Sciences,
Chair, Biology Computing Committee (Department) · 2005 - 2007 Committee Service
Director of Graduate Studies · 1997 - 1999 Professional Development Department of Zoology,
Member, Executive Committee · 1997 - 1999 Professional Development University Program in Genetics,