Contact Information:

Research Areas:
Collaboration with both the Agronomy and Statistics Departments.
Agronomy collaboration directed mainly toward the application of statistics to molecular and quantitative genetics.

Most Significant Publications:

G.A. Churchill and R.W. Doerge. 1994. Empirical threshold values for quantitative trait mapping. Genetics. 138:963-971

R.W. Doerge. 2002. Mapping and analysis of quantitative trait loci in experimental populations. Nature Reviews Genetics 3:43-52.

B.A. Craig, M.A. Black, and R.W. Doerge. 2003. Gene Expression Data: The technology and statistical analysis. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES) 8(1):1-28.

M. Bogdan, J.K. Ghosh, and R.W. Doerge. 2004. Modifying the Schwarz Bayesian Information Criterion to locate multiple interacting quantitative trait loci. Genetics. 167:989-999.

Z. Lippman, A.-V. Gendrel, M. Black, M. Vaughn, N. Dedhia, W.R. McCombie, K. Lavine, V. Mittal, B. May, K. Kasschau, J.C. Carrington, R.W. Doerge, V. Colot, and R. Martienssen 2004. Transposable elements mediate heterochromatin and epigenetic control. Nature. 430:471-476.

R.A. Martienssen, R.W. Doerge. V. Colot. 2005. Epigenomic mapping in Arabidopsis using tiling microarrays. Chromosome Research. 13 3:299-308

M.A.L. West, H. van Leeuwen, A. Kozik, D.J. Kliebenstein, R.W. Doerge, D.A. St. Clair, and R.W. Michelmore. 2006. High-density haplotyping with microarray-based expression and single feature polymorphism markers in Arabidopsis. Genome Research. 16:787-795.

Teaching: 
ST525 Applied Linear Statistical Models
ST598B Statistical Bioinformation Seminar
ST549  Introduction to QTL Mapping in Experimental Populations 

Professional Experience:

Professor of  Statistics and Agronomy, Purdue University, 2002-present
Associate Professor of Statistics and Agronomy, Purdue University, 2000-2002
Assistant Professor of Statistics (75%) and Agronomy (25%), Purdue Univ., 1995-2000
Instructor/Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, Biometrics Unit, 1993-1995
Postdoctoral Associate, North Carolina State University, Statistics Department, 1993
Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Statistics Dept., 1992-1993
NSF Research Fellow, North Carolina State University, Statistics Department, 1990-1992

Awards and Honors:
University Scholar, 2001-2006
Gamma Sigma Delta membership, 2001
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1998-1999
Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates in the School of Science, 1998
School of Science Outstanding Assistant Professor for Excellence in Teaching and Research, 1997
Teaching for Tomorrow Award, 1996

Education:
B.S. (Math) - University of Utah, 1982
M. Stat. (Math) - University of Utah, 1988
Ph.D. (Stat) - North Carolina State University, 1993
Postdoc (Plant Breeding) - Cornell University, 1995

Date joined staff:  August 1995

Last updated:  April, 2007