Dr. Clare Gill joined the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity in July 2011. She is a trained mediator and is providing leadership for the University Mediation Training Program and she co-facilitates the Difficult Dialogues Program. She has found the skillset associated with both of these programs to be particularly useful in her own career and is pleased to have the opportunity to share these skills with others.

Dr. Gill is an associate professor of animal genomics in the Department of Animal Science and a member of the Interdisciplinary Programs in Genetics and Biotechnology. Dr. Gill also co-directs the Whole Systems Genomics Initial University Multidisciplinary Research Initiative. Dr. Gill grew up in Australia and received her Honors (class I) degree in Bachelor of Biotechnology from Flinders University of South Australia in 1995. She graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2001 with a doctorate in animal molecular genetics.

Dr. Gill teaches an undergraduate senior seminar course and graduate courses in applied animal genomics and molecular biotechnology. Her primary research interest is in development and application of efficient molecular tools for comparative genomics. She is also the principal investigator of the McGregor Genomics Project, which is a collaborative effort to map genes for production efficiency in cattle. She has more than 35 peer reviewed publications.

She was awarded a chancellor's letter of commendation from Flinders University and the AMGEN 
 Australia prize for excellence in biotechnology research. She has twice been a finalist in the 
 Young Australian of the Year awards for outstanding achievement in science and technology. She 
 received the 2009 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Team Research as part of McGregor 
 Genomics Project team. Dr. Gill served on the technical committee for the bovine genome project 
 and was a project group leader for the international bovine Hapmap project, which resulted in 2 
 publications in Science. Dr. Gill is a member of the International Society of Animal Genetics, the American Society of Animal Science and the Texas Genetics Society.