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Derek Michael Wright

I graduated with a BSc in Biology from the University of Regina in 2012, followed by a MSc in Agrobiotechnology from Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (University of Giessen, Germany) in 2015. I now work in the Plant Sciences department at the University of Saskatchewan and have been involved in four research projects (AGILE, EVOLVES, P2IRC & ACTIVATE) with lentil (Lens culinaris).

I have done extensive work with a lentil diversity panel, NAM and inter-specific RIL populations. I am very fluent in and have plenty of experience with data analysis such as modeling, PCA, GxE, GWAS and QTL analyses. I have recently been working with data acquisition from UAV and seed imaging systems and can handle data wrangling and visualization of large, high-throughput data sets.

Research Experience & Education

University of Saskatchewan

Research Assistant

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Current - 2015

  • Coordinate field trials
  • Seed setup
  • Post-harvest processing
  • Data collection & analysis
  • Presentations
  • Collaborations

Cargil Specialty Seeds and Oils

Research Assistant (Internship)

Aberdeen, Saskatchewan, Canada

2015

  • Data collection & analysis
  • Pathology (blackleg)

M.Sc. in Agrobiotechnology

University of Giessen

Giessen, Hesse, Germany

2015 - 2013

  • Biotechnology and Genomics
  • Molecular Phytopathology
  • Plant Microbe Interactions
  • Plant Protection and Bioengeneering
  • Microbial-Food-Biotechnology
  • Applied Statistics and Bioinformatics
  • Molecular Plant Breeding
  • Molecular Entomology
  • Tissue Culturing and Genetic Transformation

B.Sc. Biology

University of Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

2012 - 2007

  • Limnology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Global Biogeochemistry
  • Stable Isotope Ecology
  • Vertebrate Animal Biology
  • Advanced Plant Physiology
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Bacterial Genetics

Packages

agData: an package containing agricultural data sets

https://derekmichaelwright.github.io/agData/ devtools::install_github(“derekmichaelwright/agData”)

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gwaspr: an package for plotting GWAS results

https://derekmichaelwright.github.io/gwaspr/ devtools::install_github(“derekmichaelwright/gwaspr”)

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Publications

Disecting lentil crop growth across multi-environment trials using unoccupied aerial vehicles and genome-wide association studies

The Plant Phenome Journal. In review.

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2025

github Script

Breeding potential of cultivated lentil for increased protein and amino acid concentrations in the Northern Great Plains

Crop Science. 65(3): e70085.

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2025

github Script


Grazing preferences of three species of amoebae on cyanobacteria and green algae

The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. e13018: 1-14.

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2024

Mass Spectrometry-Based Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals the Importance of Glycosylated Flavones in Patterned Lentil Seed Coats

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 71(7): 3541–3549.

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2023

Focusing the GWAS Lens on days to flower using latent variable phenotypes derived from global multi-environment trials

The Plant Genome. 16(1): e20269.

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2022

github Script

Strategic Identification of New Genetic Diversity to Expand Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) Production (Using Nepal as an Example)

Agronomy. 11(10): 1933.

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2021

github Script

Genomic selection for lentil breeding: Empirical evidence

The Plant Genome. 13(1):e20002.

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2020

Understanding photothermal interactions can help expand production range and increase genetic diversity of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)

Plants, People, Planet. 3(2): 171-181.

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2020

github Script

Influence of heterozygosity on nitrogen use efficiency in hybrid and purebred lines of Brassica napus (L.)

University of Giessen MSc Thesis

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2015

Script

Investigating seed size, shape, color, and patterning in a lentil using high throughput imaging

unpublished

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