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Andrew Gabriel Murdock
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley
1001 Valley Life Sciences Building #2465
Berkeley, CA 94720-2465
murdock@berkeley.edu

1995-2000 B.A. in Integrative Biology: University of California, Berkeley
2004August Advancement to Candidacy for the Ph.D. in Integrative Biology: University of California, Berkeley

2005 Integrative Biology Hansen Travel Fund
2005 Integrative Biology Summer Research Grant
2005 Lawrence R. Heckard Fund Research Grant
2004 California Native Plant Society Research Fellowship
2003 P.E.A.R.L. (Polynesia Education and Research Laboratories) Graduate Student Research Fellowship
2003 Honorable Mention NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2003-2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
1995-2000 National Merit Scholarship, sponsored by University of California, Berkeley

2002 Fall – Graduate Student Instructor: Biology 1B
2003 Spring – Graduate Student Instructor: Plant Systematics
2003 Summer – Graduate Student Instructor: Medical Ethnobotany
2003 Fall – Graduate Student Instructor: Medical Ethnobotany
2004 Spring – Graduate Student Instructor: California Plant Life
2004 Summer – Graduate Student Instructor: Medical Ethnobotany
2004 Fall – Graduate Student Instructor: Medical Ethnobotany
2005 Spring-Summer-Fall – Graduate Student Researcher: NSF 0228729. ATOL: Collaborative Research: Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics: Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling from Genomics to Morphology, PI Brent Mishler, UC Berkeley

Dissertation Research: Systematics and Molecular Evolution of marattioid ferns (Marattiaceae)

Phylogeny of marattioid ferns based on nucleotide sequence data and morphology
Rates of evolution in marattioid ferns, a putative living fossil lineage
Monographic revision of Asian and Pacific members of Marattia
Green Tree of Life Project
Assembling a morphological matrix for cladistic analysis of land plants in combination with gene order data sets
Assembly of land plant whole mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes
Flora of the Carquinez Strait Region, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, California (with Dean Kelch)

Murdock, Andrew G. and Alan R. Smith. 2003. Pteridophytes of Moorea, French Polynesia,: with a new species, Tmesipteris gracilis. Pacific Science 57 (3): 253-265.
Murdock, Andrew G. and Anya E. Hinkle. 2002. Moorea Digital Flora Project: http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/moorea/
Jepsen, Eric P. B. and Andrew G. Murdock. 2002. Inventory of native and non-native: vegetation on John Muir National Historic Site, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, and Port Chicago National Monument. National Parks Service report (in cooperation with Point Reyes Bird Observatory).
Murdock, Andrew G. 2000. Morning glories (Convolvulaceae) of Moorea: systematics,: distribution, and ecology. Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands 9: 106-131.
Murdock, Andrew G. 2000. Checklist of the flora of the Gump Station.: Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands 9: 200-208.

Murdock, Andrew G. 2005. Molecular evolution and phylogeny of marattioid ferns, an ancient lineage of land plants. Botany 2005 (meeting).
Murdock, Andrew G, Mishler, Brent D., Smith, Alan R., Renzaglia, Karen S., Schuette, Scott, O'Kelly, Charles J., Roper, Jessie M., Hansen,
Sterling K., Wolf, Paul G. 2005. Phylogeny of the land plants: analysis of a new comprehensive morphological matrix in relation to nucleotide sequence data and comparative organellar genomics. Botany 2005 (meeting).
Roper, Jessie M., Hansen, Sterling K., Murdock, Andrew G., Kuehl, Jennifer V., Boore, Jeffrey L., Karol, Kenneth G., Mandoli, Dina F., Olmstead, Richard, Mishler, Brent D., Wolf, Paul G. 2005. Chloroplast genome sequence of the marattioid fern Angiopteris. Botany 2005 (meeting poster).

2003-2005 Flora of the Carquinez Strait Region, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, California
Current flora and bioinformatics project with Dean G. Kelch, with upcoming web-based resource. (Manuscript in prep.)
2002 Moorea Digital Flora Project, Co-founder:
A web-based resource on the plant diversity of Moorea, French Polynesia, originally built for students and visiting researchers, the Moorea Digital Flora Project has now grown to include photo galleries of plants found on Moorea, ethnobotanical information and local names of important plants, and a key to the pteridophytes.