Stephen Wooding, PhD

Assistant Professor
Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development, Internal Medicine
Graduate Program: Genetics and Development

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

stephen.wooding@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Utah (2001)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Utah (1997)
UndergraduateUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Biology (1992)

Research Interests

Evolution
Genetics
Population Genetics
Taste
Taste Sensitivity

Publications

Independent evolution of bitter-taste sensitivity in humans and chimpanzees.

Wooding, S., Bufe, B., Grassi, C., Howard, M.T., Stone, A.C., Vazquez, M., Dunn, D.M., Meyerhof, W., Weiss, R.B., Bamshad, M.J. , Nature , 2006; (440):930-934

Contrasting effects of natural selection on human and chimpanzee CC chemokine receptor 5.

Wooding, S., Stone, A. C., Dunn, D. M., Jorde, L. B., Weiss, R. K., Ahuja, S., Bamshad, M. J. , American Journal of Human Genetics , 2005; (76):291-301

Human genetic variation and "race".

Wooding, S., Jorde, L.B , Nature Genetics , 2004; (36):S28-S33

Natural selection and molecular evolution in PTC, a bitter taste receptor gene.

Wooding, S., Kim, U.-k., Bamshad, M. J., Larsen, J., Jorde, L. B., Drayna, D. , American Journal of Human Genetics , 2004; (74):637-646

Signatures of natural selection in the human genome.

Bamshad, M., Wooding, S. , Nature Reviews Genetics , 2003; (4):99-111