Responsibilities
Sheldon joined the iPlant Collaborative in 2008. His primary responsibilities as the iPlant EOT Manager are:
- Lead developer of iPlant's DNA Subway.
- Presentation of Genomics in Education (DNA Subway and DNA Barcoding) workshops.
- Participation in cyberinfrastructure development documentation.
- Teaching advanced bioinformatics and iPlant cyberinfrastructure.
- Outreach and education activities at scientific conferences, courses and tutorials.
Research Expertise
- Evolutionary genetics
- Functional and comparative genomics
- Scientific software development
Professional Experience
- Agriculture and Agri-food, Canada
1998-2000
Genomics Biologist
- University of British Columbia and BC Cancer Agency
2000-2004
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2004-2008, Bioinformatics Analyst
2008-2010, Research Investigator
Selected Publications
- Goff SA, Vaughn M, McKay S, Lyons E, et al., 2011. The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology. Front. Plant Sci. 2:34. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00034
- Washington NL, Stinson EO, et al., McKay SJ, Micklem G, Stein LD, and Lewis SE. 2011. The modENCODE Data Coordination Center: Lessons in Harvesting Comprehensive Experimental Details. Published online doi: 10.1093/database/bar023
- Robinson SJ, Tang LH, Mooney BAG, McKay SJ, Clarke WE, Links MJ, Karcz S, Regan S, Wu Y, Gruber MY, Cui D, Yu M and IAP Parkin. 2009. An archived activation tagged population of Arabidopsis to facilitate forward genetics approaches. BMC Plant Biology 9:101 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-9-101.
- McKay SJ, Vergara IA and Stajich, J. 2010. "Using the Generic Synteny Browser (Gbrowse_syn)" in Current Protocols in Bioinformatics (Wiley Interscience) doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0912s31.
- Gerstein MB, Lu ZJ, et al., McKay, SJ, Stein LD, Lieb JD, Waterston RH. 2010. Integrative Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome by the modENCODE Project. Science 330: 1775-87.
- Meissner B, Warner A, Wong K, Dube N, Lorch A, McKay SJ, Khattra J, Rogalski T, Somasiri A, Chaudhry I, Fox RM, Miller DM III, Baillie DL, Holt RA, Jones SJM, Marra MA and DG Moerman, 2009. An Integrated Strategy to Study Muscle Development and Myofilament Structure in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet 5: e1000537. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000537.
- McGhee JD, Sleumer MC, Bilenky M, Wong K, McKay SJ, Goszczynski B, Tian H, Krich ND, Khattra J, Holt RA, Baillie DL, Kohara Y, Marra MA, Jones SJM, Moerman GD and AG Robertson. 2007. The ELT-2 GATA-factor and the global regulation of transcription in the C. elegans intestine. Developmental Biology 302: 627-645.
- Ruzanov P, Riddle DL, Marra MA, McKay SJ and SJM Jones. 2007. Genes that may modulate longevity in C. elegans in both dauer larvae and long-lived daf-2 adults. Aging Cell 42: 825-839.
Book Chapters
- McKay SJ and Cain S. 2009. “Genome Browsers” in Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications (Edwards D, Stajich J and Hansen D, Eds). Springer.doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-92738-1.
- Byun-McKay SA, Duggan R, Carroll B, Geeta R and SJ McKay. 2009. “Missing the Subcellular Target: A mechanism for the evolution of Eukaryotic Genes” in Evolutionary Biology, from Concept to Application II (Pontarotti EP, Ed.) Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00952-5_10.
Education
- Simon Fraser University, PhD, Evolutionary Genetics, 1997
- University of British Columbia, M.Sc., Genetics, 1993
- University of British Columbia, B.Sc., Genetics, 1990
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