Sukamol Srikwan Jakobsson
Research Associate/Staff Scientist
The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Indiana University, Bloomington
email: sjakobss@indiana.edu
address: Eigenmann 1013. 1900 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47406-7512
My research interests are in
conservation biology, both with theoritical and practical approaches. Conservation
biology is a synthesized field that requires understanding across all levels of
the ecosystem. Speciation, species community, interspecific interaction,
population viability and genetic variation, and habitat degradation are all
equally important in conservation biology. Conservation biologists are trained
to develop strong skills in interdisciplinary problem solving, as the
complexity of problems associated with natural resource management problems requires knowledge in very
diverse fields, spanning from evolutionary biology to law and
policy issues. Until recently, my
research focus has been on population conservation and evolutionary genetics,
such as genetic erosion in fragmented populations and phylogeny of threatened
species, including the development of molecular methods for conservation
genetic studies (noninvasive methods.) Although I am still pursuing these
research topics, my interest has shifted towards the field of biodiversity
informatics. The advancement in computer science and informatics leads to global sharing of biological diversity information, which until
recently has been kept mostly in scientists' personal collections. However, the
variation of sources and methods used to publish such information confound the
ability to utilize different fields of information interactively. This, in turn,
hinder the significant progress in the field of conservation biology. Nevertheless, the immense value of biological diversity information makes the task of
untangling this mess of information worth investigating.
Research Interest
Conservation
biology: Habitat fragmentation
and genetic erosion, species
conservation and phylogenetic study, non-invasive
sampling for population genetic studies.
Bioinformatics: forensic DNA database and
security, protein annotation application, work on biological
literature, biodiversity informatics.
Education
Ph.D.
in Biology from
the
Teaching
L504 Introduction
to Genome Biology for Physical Scientists
Publication
Srikwan,
S., D. Field, and D.S. Woodruff. 1996. Genotyping free-ranging rodents with
heterologous PCR primer pairs for hypervariable nuclear microsatellite loci. J.
Sci. Soc. Thailand. 22. pp. 267-274.
Srikwan, S and D.S. Woodruff. 1997. Molecular genetics and conservation-
new tools to save
Srikwan,S and D.S. Woodruff. 1998. DNA Sequence variation And Hornbill
Conservation. 69-82 pp. In
Poonswad, P. (
Woodruff,
Srikwan, S. and D.S.
Woodruff. 2000. Chapter 9 Genetic erosion in isolated small-mammal populations
following rain forest fragmentation. 149-172 pp. In
Panha,
S.,
Bohannon, P.,
Srikwan,
S. 2001. Sustainable agriculture
and the biological conservation of fragmented populations. 259-264 pp. In
Sustainable Agriculture: Possibility and Direction, the 2nd Asia-Pacific
Conference on Sustainable
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