Experience Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Biology March 2011-present NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biology October 2010-February 2011 Postdoctoral Investigator Wheaton College Department of Biology August 2011- May 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor Education North Carolina State University Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology July 2005 – July 2010 Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology Smith College Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Marine Sciences September 2001- May 2005 Bachelor of Arts with Highest Honors Research Interests Biological importance of genetic variation, genome-wide evolutionary analysis, responses to toxicants and environmental change across trophic levels, and elucidation of molecular mechanisms involved in response to toxicants and environmental changes Teaching ExperienceWheaton College Professr for Biology 231 (Marine Biology) lecture and lab Spring 2012 Professor for Biology 303 (Evolution) lecture and lab Fall 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Instructor for short course: “Ocean Sciences for British Petroleum Environmental Science Employees” (contribution: Toxicant responses in marine organisms) September 2011 North Carolina State University Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology Spring 2006 and 2007 Smith College Department of Biological Sciences Master Tutor in Biological Sciences May 2004 – May 2005 Teacher Assistant in Marine Ecology Fall 2003 and Fall 2004 Academic Honors and Awards Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Society of Toxicology Scholar Program Awardee NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (1F32ES019832-01) March 2011-present North Carolina State University Kenneth R. Keller Award for Excellence in Doctoral Dissertation Research 2010 NIEHS Training Grant Fellow (5T32-ES007046-29) 2005-2006 Academic year Smith College Highest Honors in Biological Sciences E.J. Murphy Scholarship Five Colleges Coastal and Marine Sciences Summer Research Internship First Group Scholar and Dean’s list Duke University Marine Laboratory Bookhout Fellowship Membership in Professional Societies American Chemical Society, National Postdoctoral Association, Sigma Xi, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Society of Toxicology Publications Williams LM, Oleksiak MF (2008) Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic Pollution. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:282. Williams LM, Ma X, Boyko AR, Bustamante CD, Oleksiak MF. (2010) SNP identification and verification using high-throughput methods in a non-model genus. BMC Genetics, 11:32. Whitehead A, Galvez Z., Zhang S., Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. (2010) Functional genomics of physiological plasticity and local adaptation in killifish: an emerging model in environmental genomics. Journal of Heredity, 102(5): 499-511. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. (2011) Selectively important SNPs identified in natural populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(6): 1817-26. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. (2011) Evolutionary and Functional analyses of Cytochrome P4501A promoter polymorphisms in natural populations. Molecular Ecology, 20(24):5236-47. Sotka EE, Williams LM, Oleksiak MF, Strand AE. Which geographic clines in the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus reflect diversifying selection? In review at PLoS One. Contributed Presentations at Conferences Williams LM, Timme-Laragy AR, Franks DG, Jenny MJ, Hahn ME. Developmental expression of the Nfe2-related (nrf) transcription factor family and regulation by Ahr2. 2012. Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Selection in natural populations. 2011. Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference, Biddeford, ME. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Cytochrome P4501A promoter polymorphisms in natural populations. 2011. Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Promoter polymorphisms and function in natural populations. 2010. New England Membrane Enzyme Group (NUTMEG) Conference, Woods Hole, MA. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Genome scans in natural populations for selectively important SNPs using high-throughput technology. 2010. Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Genome-wide scans in a non-model species using 454 pyrosequencing. 2008. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution. 2007. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Williams LM, Oleksiak MF. Genome Search for Selectively Important Loci in Fundulus heteroclitus populations. 2006. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ. Invited Talks Williams LM, The New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site: Politics, Pollution and Adaptation. Saul Krasner Memorial Science Lecture Series, September 2011, United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut. Williams LM, Genomic Analyses of polluted, natural populations. Biology Seminar, April 4, 2011, University of Vermont.Williams LM, Environmental genomics of adaptation to pollution stress. Life Sciences Colloquium, March 21, 2011, Smith College, Massachusetts. Williams LM, Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution. Department of Biology Seminar, November 18, 2010, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts. Williams LM, Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution. Science Lecture Series, September 30, 2010, Norwich University, Vermont. Reviewer for: Aquatic Toxicology, Heredity, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Molecular Ecology Education Activities Committees and Other Service Advocacy Committee, National Postdoctoral Association, 2011-12 Councilor, Society of Toxicology Postdoctoral Assembly Board, 2011-12 President, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Postdoctoral Association, 2010-2011 Gender Equity Committee, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2010-2011 Treasurer, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Graduate Student Association, 2005-2006 Student Advising and Mentoring Mentoring facilitator for Society of Toxicology members, 2012 Mentoring Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institution of Technology joint program Ph.D. student, Katherine Pitz, 2011-12 Mentored University of Miami graduate student, Martha Hauff, 2011 Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Education Program Mentor, 2011 Undergraduates at the University of Miami: Kasia Mikolajczak, Spring 2010 Nicole Budzinski, 2008-2009 Academic Year Community Outreach Falmouth Middle and High School Science Fair Judge, 2012 Falmouth Academy Science Fair Judge, 2011 Last updated: May 29, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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