EDUCATION
B.A. (Biology, Mathematics) 1994, Hiram College
M.S. (Statistics) 1996, The Ohio State University
Ph.D. (Biostatistics) 1999, The Ohio State University 

EMPLOYMENT

HONORS
James A. Garfield Scholarship, Hiram College, 1990
Hiney Mathematical Sciences Award, Hiram College, 1993
Grace Pickford Biology Award, Hiram College, 1994
The Ohio Board of Regents Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1995
The Powers Teaching Award, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State
     University, 1995
Graduate Teaching Associate Award, The Ohio State University, 1997
Provost's Teaching Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 1997
First Place, The Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, 1998
Journal Award, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, 1998
Craig Cooley Memorial Prize, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State
     University, 1998
Travel Award, Large Scale Phylogenies Symposium, Princeton University, 1998
Whitney Research Award, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University,
     1999
Outstanding Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University
     of New Mexico, 2002

AREAS OF RESEARCH
Dr. Kubatko's research interests are in statistical genetics, including the estimation of phylogenetic trees from nucleotide sequence data, linkage and QTL analysis, and the analysis of microarray data. Her research in the area of phylogenetics is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Kubatko has significant ongoing collaborations with scientists at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in the areas of QTL and microarray analysis and at the National Center for Genome Resources in the area of microarrays. She also collaborates with the Anthropology Department at Arizona State University on phylogenetics and linkage studies. 
 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
(Also published under the name L. A. Salter.)

1. Salter, L.: Algorithms for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Vol. 2, (F. Valafar, ed.), pp. 459-465, CSREA Press, Las Vegas, NV, 2000.

    

2. Salter, L. A. and D. H. Pearl: Stochastic Search Strategy for Estimation of Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Trees. Syst. Biol. 50(1): 7-17, 2001.

    

3. Salter, L. A.: Complexity of the Likelihood Surface for a Large DNA Dataset. Syst. Biol. 50(6): 970-978, 2001.

    

4. Turner, T. F., L. A. Salter and J. R. Gold: Temporal-Method Estimates of Ne from Highly Polymorphic Loci. Conserv. Genet. 2: 297-308, 2001.

    

5. Frankel, W. L., J. G. Tranovich, L. Salter, G. Bumgardner and P. Baker: The Optimal Number of Liver Biopsy Sites to Evaluate Liver Histology for Transplantation. Liver Transpl. 8(11): 1044-1050, 2002.

    

6. Pearl, D. K. and L. A. Salter: DNA Sequences. In Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology (R. C. Elston, J. M. Olson and L. Palmer, eds.), pp. 217-227, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2002.

    

7. Wang, Q., L. A. Salter and D. K. Pearl: Estimation of Evolutionary Parameters with Phylogenetic Trees. J. Mol. Evol. 55(6): 684-695, 2002.

    

8. Powell, A. J., D. J. Jacobson, L. Salter and D. O. Natvig: Variation Among Natural Isolates of Neurospora on Small Spatial Scales. Mycologia 95(5): 809-819, 2003.

    

9. Gilchrist, M. A., L. A. Salter and A. Wagner: A Statistical Framework for Combining and Interpreting Proteomic Datasets. Bioinformatics 20(5): 689-700, 2004.

    

10. Salter, L.: The Phylogenetic Handbook: A Practical Approach to DNA and Protein Phylogeny (Book Review). Am. J. Hum. Biol. 16(3): 354-355, 2004.

     

11. Strandberg, A. K. K. and L. A. Salter: A Comparison of Methods for Estimating the Transition:Transversion Ratio from DNA Sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 32(2): 495-503, 2004.

     

12. Degnan, J. and L. Salter: Gene Tree Distributions Under the Coalescent Process. Evolution Int. J. Org. Evolution 59(1): 24-37, 2005.

     

13. Harmon, M. J., T. L. VanPool, R. D. Leonard, C. S. VanPool and L. A. Salter: Reconstructing the Flow of Information Across Time and Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ceramic Traditions from Prehispanic Western and Northern Mexico and the American Southwest. In Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Methods in Anthropology and Prehistory (C. P. Lipo, M. J. O'Brien, M. Collard and S. J. Shennan, eds.), pp. 209-230, Aldine, New York, 2006.

     

14. Kubatko, L. S. and J. H. Degnan: Inconsistency of Phylogenetic Estimates from Concatenated Data Under Coalescence. Syst. Biol. 56(1): 17-24, 2007.

     

15. Kubatko, L. S.: Inference of Phylogenetic Trees. To appear in Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences, Springer-Verlag (in press).

     

16. Wilbur, A., L. Salter Kubatko, J. Feurstein, A. Hurtado, K. Hill and A. Stone: Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Susceptibility to M. tuberculosisin Native Paraguayans. Tuberculosis (in press).