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