Keith A. Crandall | |
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| Alma mater | Kalamazoo College (1987) Washington University in St. Louis (1992) |
| Awards | American Society of Naturalists' Young Investigator Prize 1994[1] Alfred P. Sloan Young Investigator Award 1996[2] NSF CAREER Award 1997-2002[3] Fulbright ScholarOxford University 2000-2001[4] Batts Foundation Natural History Lecturer, Kalamazoo College 2003 President,Society of Systematic Biologists 2010[5] Honors Professor of the Year, Brigham Young University 2012 |
Keith A. Crandall is an Americancomputational biologist,bioinformaticist, andpopulation geneticist atGeorge Washington University, where he is the founding director of the Computational Biology Institute,[6] and professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.[7]
Crandall received aBachelor of Arts degree inmathematics andbiology fromKalamazoo College in 1987. He received aMaster of Arts degree incoalescent theory[8] and network estimation of gene genealogies[9] (statistics) fromWashington University in St. Louis in 1992. He then proceeded to obtain aDoctor of Philosophy in biology and biomedical sciences from Washington University in St. Louis in 1993, for research supervised byAlan Templeton on themolecular systematics andevolutionary biology in thecrayfish subgenusProcericambarus (Decapoda:Cambaridae). Crandall then held theAlfred P. Sloan andNational Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships at theUniversity of Texas, studyingmolecular evolution under advisors Jim Bull andDavid Hillis, between 1993 and 1996.
In 1996, Crandall joined the faculty of the Department of Zoology atBrigham Young University as anassistant professor, where he served until 2002. He then joined the Departments of Integrative Biology and Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University as anassociate professor, and then as afull professor from 2005 to 2006. Crandall was then appointed Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology from 2006 to 2007, and later served as Chair of the Department of Biology[10] from 2007 to 2012. In 2010, Crandall was listed as anISI highly cited researcher.[11]
In 2012, Crandall was recruited by George Washington University[12] to found the Computational Biology Institute,[13] where he has since served as its founding director, additionally holding appointments as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences[14] from 2012 to 2017, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics[15] from 2018 to 2019, and in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics[7] since 2019. Crandall also serves as the Director of the George Washington UniversityMilken Institute School of Public Health Genomics Core Facility,[16] co-director of the Informatics Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute atChildren's National Health System,[17] and co-director of The George Washington University Institute for Biomedical Sciences PhD Program in Genomics and Bioinformatics.[18]
Crandall studies thecomputational biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics of a variety of organisms, fromcrustaceans to agents of infectious diseases. His lab also focuses on the development and testing of methods forDNA sequence analysis, including leading methods inphylogenetics andmicrobiome research. He applies these methods and others to the study of the evolution ofinfectious diseases with particular focus onHIV evolution. He is also a leading authority in crustacean evolutionary biology. Crandall has published over 300 peer reviewed publications,[19] as well as three books (The Evolution of HIV,[20]Algorithms in Bioinformatics,[21] andDecapod Crustacean Phylogenetics[22]). Crandall's research has been funded by both theNational Science Foundation and theNational Institutes of Health as well as from a variety of other agencies, includingAmerican Foundation for AIDS Research,National Geographic,United States Forest Service,Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, etc.
