Jonathan Eisen

Title of Talk

 

Seeking out the dark matter of the biological universe and the need for a phylogeny driven genomic encyclopedia

 

 

Biography

 

Professor, UC Davis Genome Center
Section of Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences
Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. My lab is in the UC Davis Genome Center and I hold appointments in the Departments of Medical Microbiology and Evolution and Ecology. In addition I hold an Adjunct appointment at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA.

My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis (see my lab site below).

In addition to research, I am heavily involved in the Open Access publishing movement and am Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology.

Prior to moving to UC Davis I was on the faculty at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) with an Adjunct Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University. I did my PhD at Stanford studying the evolution of DNA repair processes and my undergraduate studies at Harvard.

Blog: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com

Lab web site: http://bobcat.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

 

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