David A. McClellan
180 McKown Point Road
West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575-0475
U.S.A.
Education
- M. S., Zoology, 1994 and B.S., Zoology, 1992, Brigham Young University
- Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 1999
Research Interests
Dr. McClellan is a broadly trained biologist with research interests in molecular adaptation and evolutionary bioinformatics. His background includes integration of biochemistry, statistics, computer science, biotechnology, bioinformatics, molecular systematics, genetics, and ecology.
Bioinformatics is an emerging area of biological research that combines molecular biology and mathematical modeling of biological phenomena with computer software design and implementation. Dr. McClellan is developing biological/computational approaches specifically to the study of molecular adaptation, the field of research concerned with molecular mechanisms involved with drug and vaccine resistance in viruses and bacteria, as well as the effect of global and local climate change on humans and other organisms. He is actively developing analytical methodology and computer software, and working in collaboration with empirical researchers around the world to characterize adaptation in a variety of organisms, including worms, copepods, wasps, agricultural crops, lizards, whales, and humans.