Declaration Dr. Thomas H. Pringle - Buffalo Field Campaign

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1. My name is Thomas Pringle. I am a molecular biologist on the
genomics team annotating dozens of mammalian genomes at the
University of California at Santa Cruz.
2. I received my undergraduate degree in 1966 from Harvard, completed
graduate work in molecular biology at the University of Cali fomi a
San Diego, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of
Oregon. I was fonnerly a college professor at Gettysburg College in
Pennsylvania and taught biochemical genetics at the University of
Texas Medical School. I currently direct the Sperling Biomedical
Foundation based in Eugene, Oregon.
3. I am an expert on vertebrate comparative genomics and have
published nWllerouS original research articlcs in major scientific
journals in which I analyzed genetic variations similar to those of
bison for neutrality, adaptation or disease. My recent publications on
this topic include the following:
a. Nature. 2010 Feb. 18; 463(7283): 943-7. Complete Khoisan and
Bantu genomes from southern Africa.
b. Nature. 2008 Nov. 20; 456(7220):387-90. Sequencing the
nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth.
c. Nature. 2008 May 8; 453(7192):175-83. Genome analysis of
the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution.
d. Science. 2007 Nov. 2;318(5851):792-4. Molecular and
genomic data identify the closest living relative of primates.
e. PNAS 2011 (in press). Conservation genomics of Tasmanian
Devil.
f. Science 2011 (in press). Adaptive change in the mammoth
proteome.
g. Genome Res. 2007 Dec.;! 7(12): 1797-808. 28-way vertebrate
alignment and conservation track in the UCSC Genome
Browser.
h. Genome Res. 2007 Apr.; 17(4):413-21. Using genomic data to
unravel the root of the placental mammal phylogeny.
1. Genome Res. 2002 Jun.; 12(6):996-1006. The human genome
browscr at uses.
J. PLoS Comput. BioI. 2007 Dec.;3(12):e247. Comparative
genomics search for losses of long-established genes on the
human lineage.