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Appendix E--Speaker Biographies
Appendix E--Speaker Biographies
Pages 395-404
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Some areas of special interest include: tools for detecting natural selection in microbes; the evolutionary origin of gene families; mining metagenomic sequence data; experimental evolution of microbes; modeling bacterial ecology; gene regulatory networks in bacteria; and protein structure and design. He enjoys teaching a variety of classes at MIT, spanning his diverse interests in microbiology, computer algorithms, and thermodynamics of biomolecules.
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He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received numerous honors including the Solomon A Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award from New York University, the Maxwell L Littman Award, the Rhoda Benham Award from Medical Mycology Society of America, and the Kass Lecturership from Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Jennifer Gardy, Ph.D., leads the Genome Research Lab at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, where she and her colleagues use emerging genomics technologies as tools for solving problems in public health.
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Dr. Ghedin came to the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 after spending six years at TIGR where she led the Influenza Genome Project, the first of its kind to characterize large collections of an acute RNA virus, overturning outdated models of influenza evolution that were based on limited genetic data.
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Her collaborations have included projects describing the progression of pouchitis in inflammatory bowel disease patients, the impacts of antibiotics, and the effects of changing dentition. She has also been active in developing and advancing best practices for the use of 16S ribosomal RNA gene for studying microbial communities, starting with her participation in the first paper that used the 454 tag pyrosequencing for studying microbial ecology and the rare biosphere.
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He has published extensively on the evolution and population genetics of Bacillus anthracis, Yersinia pestis, Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Burkholderia mallei, Brucella spp., and Coxiella burnetii. Recently, these same scientific principles have been applied to other public health and clinically important pathogens such as Vibrio cholerae (cholera in Haiti)
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Dr. Rasko has led comparative genome sequencing and analysis projects for important human diarrheal pathogens, focusing on Escherichia coli and Shigella species as well as Bacillus cereus group isolates including Bacillus anthracis.
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research at UC Berkeley in the Department of Integrative Biology and her postdoctoral research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the Department of Genomics. Tim Stearns, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Stanford University Department of Biology, the Stanford University Medical School Department of Genetics, and the Cancer Biology Program.
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Louis, where he leads a number of projects in human genetics and microbial genomics including projects in the Human Microbiome Project and other metagenomic studies of humans, monkeys, and mice. Previously he was Co-Director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, where he was a leader of the Human Genome Project and a number of other genome projects.
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