J. Andrew DeWoody

Forestry and Natural Resources

Professor of Genetics

Phone

765.496.6109

Fax

765.496.2422

Office

FORS Room 108

Address

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
195 Marsteller Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2033

Biological Sciences

Professor of Genetics, Courtesy Appointment

Email

dewoody@purdue.edu

Dr. Andrew DeWoody's website

J. Andrew DeWoody did his undergraduate studies in Wildlife and Fisheries at Texas A&M University. After a brief stint as a field biologist with the now-defunct Soil Conservation Service, he returned to A&M to earn an M.S. in Genetics under the tutelage of Rodney Honeycutt and Loren Skow. Andrew's Ph.D. in Zoology is from Texas Tech University, where he worked with a preeminent mammalogist (Robert Baker). DeWoody then did a 3-yr postdoc stint with an obscure geneticist named John Avise at the University of Georgia (Department of Genetics).

At Purdue, DeWoody's graduate students have worked in the fields of molecular evolution (Deb Triant), conservation biology (Dave Glista and Jamie Rudnick), and immunogenetics (Sara Turner). His research has been funded by a variety of organizations including NSF, USDA-NRI, the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the National Geographic Society, and the Joint Transportation Research Program. DeWoody's research has been published in a variety of scientific journals, and electronic reprints are available here.

Research Group - Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Genetics, Wildlife Science

Facilities - Genetics Lab

Awards & Honors

(2011) Ag Research Award. Purdue Agriculture.

(2016) Elected Fellow. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

(2012) Outstanding Graduate Educator. Purdue University Forestry and Natural Resources Department.

(2012) University Faculty Scholar. Purdue University.

(1996) Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellow. ARCS.

(1991) Distinguished Student Award for Academic Excellence. Texas A&M University.

Selected Publications

Willoughby, J. R., Sundaram, M., Wijayawardena , B. K., Lamb, M. C., Kimble, S. J., Jiang, Y., . . . DeWoody, J. (2015). The reduction of genetic diversity in threatened vertebrates and new recommendations regarding effective population size and IUCN conservation rankings. Biological Conservation, 191, 495-503.

Wijayawardena, B., Minchella, D. J., & DeWoody, J. (2015). Horizontal gene transfer in schistosomes: a critical assessment. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology, 201, 57-65.

Swihart, R. K., Sundaram, M., Hook, T. O., DeWoody, J., & Kellner, K. F. (2016). Benchmarks of scholarly performance for faculty in fisheries and wildlife. PLOS ONE, 11(5), e0155097. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155097

Fahey, A. L., Ricklefs, R. E., & DeWoody, J. (2015). Historical demography of bird populations from Hispaniola assessed by nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Folia Zoologica, 64, 259-272.

Swihart, R. K., Sundaram, M., Hook, T. O., & DeWoody, J. (2016). Factors affecting scholarly performance by wildlife and fisheries faculty. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Swihart, R. K., Sundaram, M., Hook, T. O., & DeWoody, J. (2016). Factors affecting scholarly performance by wildlife and fisheries faculty. Journal of Wildlife Management, 80, 563-572.

Feiner, Z. S., DeWoody, J., Breck, J. E., & Hook, T. O. (2017). Influences of multilocus heterozygosity on size during early life. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 7(7), 2142-2154. doi:10.1002/ece3.2781

Swihart, R. K., Sundaram, M., Hook, T. O., & DeWoody, J. (2016). Factors affecting scholarly performance by wildlife and fisheries faculty. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0155097.

Willoughby, J. R., Wijayawardena, B. K., Sundaram, M., Swihart, R. K., & DeWoody, J. (2016). The importance of including imperfect detection models in eDNA experimental design. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16, 837-844.

Ji, Y., & DeWoody, J. (2016). Genomic landscape of long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) and solo LTRs as shaped by ectopic recombination in chicken and zebra finch. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 82, 251-263.