Department of Microbiology
Oregon State University
226 Nash Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331
tel: (541) 737-8623 fax: (541) 737-0496
thomas.sharpton@gmail.com
lab.sharpton.org
@tjsharpton
github.com/sharpton
Education
2009 University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D., Microbiology, Designated Emphasis in Computational Biology
2003 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
B.S. (Cum Laude), Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Appointments
2013- Assistant Professor
Departments of Microbiology and Statistics, Oregon State University
2009-2013 Bioinformatics Fellow
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Gladstone Institutes
Mentors: Katherine Pollard & Jonathan Eisen (UC Davis)
2003-2009 Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Microbiology, University of California, Berkeley
Mentors: John Taylor & Sandrine Dudoit
2005 Bioinformatics Research Intern
The Broad Institute
Mentor: James Galagan
2002-2003 Research Assistant
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University
2001 Research Assistant
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
Honors & Awards
2014 Carter Award for Outstanding and Inspirational Teaching in Science (Finalist)
2013 Gladstone Scientific Leadership Award
2007 Dean’s Council Student Research Representative
2007 Effectiveness in Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
2006-2008 Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Research Fellowship
2002 Student Leadership Fellowship
2002 HHMI Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2002-2003 Dr. Donald MacDonald Excellence in Science Scholarship
2002 OSU College of Science's Excellence in Science Scholarship
1999-2003 Provost Scholarship
1999 American Legion Student Ethics Award
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
18. Nayfach S, Bradley PH, Wyman SK, Laurent TJ, Williams A, Eisen JA, Pollard KS, Sharpton TJ^. (In Print) Automated and accurate estimate of gene family abundance from shotgun metagenomes. PLOS Computational Biology.
17. O’Dwyer JP, Kembel SW, Sharpton TJ (2015) Backbones of Evolutionary History Test Biodiversity Theory for Microbes. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(27):8356-61. PMCID: In process
16. Quandt AC, Kohler A, Hesse C, Sharpton TJ, Martin F, Spatafora JW. (2015) Metagenomic sequence of Elaphomyces granulatus from sporocarp tissue reveals Ascomycota ectomycorrhizal fingerprints of genome expansion and a Proteobacteria rich microbiome. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12840. PMCID: In process
15. Skewes-Cox P, Sharpton TJ, Pollard KS, DeRisi JL. (2014) Profile hidden Markov models for the detection of viruses within metagenomic sequence data. PLOS ONE 9(8): e105067.
14. Kent M, Soderlund K, Thomann E, Schreck CB, Sharpton TJ. (2014) Post-mortem sporulation of Ceratomyxa Shasta (Myxozoa) after dealth in adult Chinook salmon. Journal of Parasitology. 100(5):679-83
13. Sharpton TJ^. (2014) An Introduction to the Analysis of Shotgun Metagenomic Data Frontiers in Plant Genetics and Genomics. 5(209) PMCID: PMC4059276.
12. Kidd JM*, Sharpton TJ*, Norman PJ, Carpenter M, Sikora M, Gignoux CR, Gorgani NN, Agilent Technologies, Pollard KS, Parham P, Feldman MW, Wall J, Bustamante CD, Henn BM. (2014) Exome Capture from Saliva Produces High Quality Genomic and Metagenomic Data. BMC Genomics. 15(262). PMCID: PMC4051168
11. Finucane M, Sharpton TJ, Laurant T, Pollard KS (2014) A taxonomic signature of obesity in the microbiome? Getting to the guts of the matter PLOS ONE. 9(1): e84689. PMCID: PMC3885756
10. Ladau J, Sharpton TJ, Jospin G, Kembel SW, O'Dwyer JP, Koeppel A, Green JL, Pollard KS. (2013) Global marine bacterial diversity peaks at high latitudes in winter. International Society of Microbial Ecology Journal. Published online March 21, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.37. PMCID: PMC3749493
9. Sharpton TJ*^, Jospin G*, Wu D, Langille MG, Pollard KS, Eisen JA (2012). Sifting through genomes with iterative-sequence clustering produces a large, phylogenetically diverse protein-family resource, BMC Bioinformatics, 13(1): 264. PMCID: PMC3481395
8. Whiston E, Wise HZ, Jui G, Sharpton TJ, Cole GT, Taylor JW. (2012) “Comparative Transcriptomics of the Saprobic and Parasitic Growth Phases in Coccidioides spp.” PLOS ONE. 7(7): e41034. PMCID: PMC3401177
7. Wylie KM, Truty RM, Sharpton TJ, Mihindukulasuriya KA, Zhou Y, Gao H, Sodergren E, Weinstock GM, Pollard KS (2012). Novel bacterial taxa in the human microbiome, PLOS ONE, 7(6): e3529. PMCID: PMC3374617
6. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012) A Framework for Human Microbiome Research, Nature, 486: 215–221. PMCID: PMC3377744
5. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium (2012). Structure, function and diversity of the human microbiome in an adult reference population, Nature, 486: 207-214. PMCID: PMC3564958
4. Sharpton TJ^, Riesenfeld SJ, Kembel SW, Ladau J, O'Dwyer JP, Green JL, Eisen JA, Pollard KS (2011). PhylOTU: a high-throughput procedure quantifies microbial community diversity and resolves novel taxa from metagenomic data, PLOS Computational Biology, 7(1): e1001061. PMCID: PMC3024254
3. Neafsey DE, Barker BM, Sharpton TJ, Stajich JE, Park D, Whiston E, Hung C, McMahan C, White J, Sykes S, Heiman D, Young S, Zeng Q, Abouelleil A, Aftuck L, Bessette D, Brown A, FitzGerald M, Lui A, Macdonald JP, Priest M, Orbach MJ, Galgiani JN, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Birren BW, Henn MR, Taylor JW, Rounsley SD. (2010) Population Genomic Sequencing of Coccidioides Fungi Reveals Recent Hybridation and Transposon Control, Genome Research, 20: 938–946. PMCID: PMC2892095
2. Sharpton TJ^, Stajich JE, Rounsley SD, Gardner MJ, Wortman JR, Jordar VS, Maiti R, Kodira CD, Neafsey DE, Zeng Q, Hung C, McMahan C, Muszewksa A, Grynberg M, Mandel MA, Kellner EM, Barker BM, Galgiani JN, Orbach MJ, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Henn MR, Birren BW, Taylor JW. (2009) Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Human Fungal Pathogens Coccidioides and their Relatives, Genome Research, 19: 1722–1731. PMCID: PMC2765278
1. Sharpton TJ^, Neafsey DE, Galagan JE, and Taylor JW. (2008) Mechanisms of Intron Gain and Loss in Cryptococcus, Genome Biology, 9(1): R24. PMCID: PMC2395259
*Indicates co-first author
^Indicates corresponding author
Other Publications
Sharpton TJ, Gaulke C. (2015) Modeling the Context-Dependent Associations between the Gut Microbiome, Its Environment, and Host Health. mBio, 6(5): e01387-15.
Sharpton TJ, Jhaveri AA. (2006) Leveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhace Scientific Research. PLOS Biology, 4(6): e199.
Professional Membership & Service
Academic Service
2015 Lead Author. Oregon State University’s response to the White House Office of Science and Technology’s Request for Information regarding microbiome research.
2015- Editor. mSystems.
2015- Committee Member. Graduate Bioinformatics Minor Curriculum Committee, OSU
2015- Member. American Society of Microbiology.
2014- Committee Member. BioHealth Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, OSU
2014- Committee Member. Microbiology Graduate Admissions, OSU
2014-2015 Committee Member. (Under)graduate Bioinformatics Curriculum Task Force, OSU
2014-2015 Subcommittee Co-Chair. Graduate Bioinformatics Curriculum Task Force, OSU
2014- Review Editor. Frontiers in Systems Microbiology
2013-2014 Committee Member. Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Spring Colloquium Steering Committee, OSU
2013- Biological Consultant. Informal advisor for statisticians, OSU
2013- Statistical Consultant. Informal advisor for microbiologists, OSU
2013- Member. Scientists for Advancing Microbiome Research
2010- Member. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium
2009- Ad Hoc Referee. Science, PLoS Computational Biology, BMC Genomics, Molecular Ecology, FEMS Microbial Ecology, Microbiome, Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Systems Biology, Frontiers in Microbiology, mBio, Applied Environmental Microbiology
2010 Advisor. UCSF Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program Review
2007 President. Plant and Microbial Graduate Group, UC Berkeley
2007 President. Microbiology Student Group, UC Berkeley
2006 Chair. Microbiology Student Symposium, UC Berkeley
2006-2008 Webmaster. Microbiology Student Group, UC Berkeley
2005 Reviewer. Joint Genome Institute’s IUMS Genome Browser Review
Teaching and Training
Academic Courses
2015 Symbiosis and the Environment. BI358
Guest Lecture – “The Human Gut Microbiome” (2/5)
2014- Introduction to Quantitative Genomics. ST599
Course Developer and Instructor (Fall Quarter, Alternate Years)
2014 Molecular Host-Microbe Interactions. MCB637
Guest Lecture – “The Human Gut Microbiome” (5/30)
2014- Microbial Bioinformatics and Genome Evolution. OSU MB668
Course Developer and Lead Instructor. (Spring Quarter, Annual)
2014 Neuroendrocrine Regulation of Energy Metabolism. OSU NUTR 599/699
Guest Lecture – “The Human Gut Microbiome” (4/14)
2014 Nucleic Acid Bioinformatics. OSU BB499/599 CS419/519
Guest Lecture – “Inferring functional elements from conservation” (2/17)
2013 Microbial Systems. OSU MB511
Guest Lecture - “Mapping the Diversity of Marine Bacteria” (11/25)
2013 Microbiomes and Host-Microbiome Interactions. OSU HC407
Guest Lecture - “The Human Gut Microbiome” (11/12)
2007 Comparative Genomics Seminar UC Berkeley PMB290
Course Organizer
2006 The Diversity of Fungi. UC Berkeley PMB110
Graduate Student Assistant Instructor
2004 Introduction to Biology. UC Berkeley BIO1B
Graduate Student Assistant Instructor
2003 Cell and Molecular Biology. OSU BI314
Undergraduate Student Assistant Instructor
Advising
2014- Melissa Conley, PhD Co-Advisor, Nutrition
2014 Martin Guyer. MS Co-Advisor, Statistics
2014- Nicole Kirchoff, PhD Advisor, Microbiology
2014- Christopher Gaulke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology
2014-2015 Kyle Duyck, Undergraduate Researcher, Biochemistry/Biophysics
2014-2015 Holman Jue, Undergraduate Researcher, Microbiology
2014- Sean McNall, Undergraduate Researcher, Microbiology
2014 Courtney Armour, Rotation Student, MCB
2015- Courtney Armour, PhD Advisor, MCB
2015- Lexi Gauthier, Undergraduate Researcher, Microbiology
Mentorship: Informal
2013 Dr. Mariel Finucane – The obesity-associated gut microbiome
2013 Timothy Laurent – Ascertaining protein family quality and function
2012 Rachel Radnor – Computational analysis of marine microbial diversity
2012 Guillaume Jospin – Iterative clustering to identify novel proteins
2012 Stephen Nayfach – Assessing microbial functional diversity estimations
2011 Peter Skews-Cox – Building Viral HMMs for metagenomic data analysis
2011 Aram Avila-Herrera – Identification of CRISPRs in metagenomic data
2010 Dr. Rebecca Truty – Quantifying novel human microbiota
Thesis/Dissertation Committee Member and Service
2015- Sarah Nalven, College of Earth, Atmospheric, Oceanic Sciences, MS Committee
Member
2015- Mudra Choudhury, Bioresources Research Program Committee Member
2015- Brandon Kieft, Dept. of Microbiology, PhD Committee Member
2014- Ryan McMinds, Dept. of Microbiology, PhD Committee Member
2014- Trevor Tivey, Dept. Integrative Biology, PhD Committee Member
2014-2015 Kimberly Kenny, Honors Thesis Com mittee Member
2014 Krista Soderlund, Honors Thesis Committee Member
2014 Martin Guyer, Dept. Statistics, MS Committee Member
2014- Edward Davis, Dept. Botany & Plant Pathology, PhD Committee Member
2014- 2015 Kevin Vergin, Dept. Microbiology, PhD Committee Member
2013- Melissa Conley. Dept. Nutrition, PhD Committee Member
2013-2014 Robbie Eberhard-Garah. BRR Honors Student Committee Member
Open Source Software
vFams (http://derisilab.ucsf.edu/software/price/vFam)
Protein family database for the metagenomic identification of viruses
ShotMAP (https://github.com/sharpton/shotmap)
Distributed computing workflow to classify metagenomic data into protein families
SFams Database (http://edhar.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/sifting_families/)
Diverse protein family database that rapidly incorporates new genomic data
PhylOTU (https://github.com/sharpton/PhylOTU)
Identifies metagenomic OTUs using a phylogenetic approach
ModAlign (https://github.com/sharpton/modalign)
An HMM-based multiple sequence aligner
Bio::SearchIO::HMMER3 (https://github.com/kblin/bioperl-hmmer3)
BioPerl module that transforms HMMER result files into a BioPerl SearchIO object
Grants
Active
NIH R21 AI108953-01A1 (Co-I)
Longitudinal and functional dynamics of autoimmune gut microbiomes
Contact PI: Pollard
Submitted: 11/2013
Collaborators: Katherine Pollard, Shomyseh Sanjabi
Requested Amount: $525,250
Subcontract Request: $49,609
Department: Microbiology
College: Ag. Science
Person Months: 2
Location of Project: J. David Gladstone Institutes (Subcontract to OSU)
Active Dates: 10/2014-09/2016
Environmental Health Sciences Center Pilot Project Grant (PI)
High-throughput Discovery of Environmental Mechanisms of Dysbiosis
Award Amount: $10,000
Active Dates: 6/2015– 3/2016
NIH R01 1R01DK103761 (Co-I)
Gut microbiota mediate the interplay between immunity and glucose metabolism
Contact PI: Shulzhenko
Collaborators: Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun, Aleksandra Sikora
Subaward Amount: $144,905
Active Dates: 09/01/2015-08/31/2020
NIH R01 1R01AT009168 (Co-I)
Vitamin D, xanthohumol and nuclear receptors: targeting immunity, microbiota and the gut metabolome
Contact PI: Gombart
Collaborators: Adrian Gombart, Claudia Maier, Fred Stevens, Balz Frei, Paul Blackmore, Malcolm Lowry, Miranda Cristobal, Andriy Morgun, Gerd Bobe, Natalia Shulzenko
Person Months: 0.6
Subaward amount: $34,471
Active Dates: 09/01/2015-8/31/2020
Completed
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation 3300 (Co-PI)
The Environmental Niche Atlas: Global Mapping of Microbial Functions
Contact PI: Pollard
Submitted 8/2011
Collaborators: Katherine Pollard, Jonathan Eisen
Total Award Amount: $1,510,227
Subcontract Amount: $25,484
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Active Dates: 11/01/2013 – 10/31/2014
Person-Months Per Year Committed to Project: 2
Location of Project: J. David Gladstone Institutes (Subcontract to OSU)
Pending
National Science Foundation (DEB)
Using Phylogenetic Structure to Clarify the Evolutionary Ecological Distribution of Microorganisms
Role: PI
Source of Support:
Total Award Amount: $731,791
Total Award Period Covered: 4/1/16 – 3/31/19
Location: Oregon State University, subaward ($326,965) to University of Illinois
Person Months per Year Committed to the Project: 1.0 calendar month
National Science Foundation (DMS)/National Institutes of Health (NIGMS)
Network-based statistical methods reveal microbial and host interactions from microbiome data
Role: Co-PI
Total Award Amount: $760,767
Total Award Period Covered: 07/01/16 – 06/30/19
Location: Oregon State University (Sharpton subaward $77,228)
Person Months per Year Committed to the Project: 0.5 calendar months
National Science Foundation (ABI)
ABI Innovation: An Ecophylogenetic Framework for the Analysis of Microbial Communities
Role: PI
Total Award Amount: $429,398
Total Award Period Covered: 7/1/16 – 6/30/18
Location: Oregon State University
Person Months per Year Committed to the Project: 1.0 calendar month
Submitted
NIH NIEHS R21 (PI)
The Longitudinal Impact of Triclosan Exposure on the Enteric Microbiome
Contact PI: Sharpton
Submitted: 2/2015
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Requested Amounts: $275,000 (Direct)
Collaborators: R. Tanguay
W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program (Co-PI)
W.M. Keck Foundation
Developing Next-Generation High-Throughput Culturing Technology to Identify the Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Interaction Networks
Contact PI: Giovannoni
Submitted: 8/2014 – Internal Review, 10/2014 Keck Foundation Review
Collaborators: S. Giovannoni
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Requested Amount: $1,893,098
Person Months: 1
Location of Project: Oregon State University
Status: Phase I application submitted
Sloan Foundation Early Career Award (PI)
Analyzing inter-protein relationships to infer molecular, evolutionary, and ecological functions
Contact PI: Sharpton
Submitted: 2/2014
Collaborators: None
NIH P01 (Core Co-Leader)
CAM Center for Mechanistic Evaluation of Vitamin D and Xanthohumol
Contact PI: Stevens
Submitted: 9/2013
Collaborators: Fred Stevens, Cathy Abney, Joe Beckman, Paul Blakemore, Gerd Bobe, Jaewoo Choi, Adrian Gombart, Arup Indra, Yuan Jiang, LeeCole Legette, Malcolm Lowry, Claudia Maier, Barbara McVica, Cristobal Miranda, , Andrey Morgun, Ralph Reed, Natalia Shulzhenko, Brett Tyler
Requested Amount: 9,160,816
Status: Rejected
DOD MURI (Co-PI)
Building a predictive understanding of skin bacterial community ecology, body odor, and mosquito attractiveness
Contact PI: Fierer
Submitted: 12/2013
Collaborators: Noah Fierer, Brendan Bohannan, Detlev Helmig, James O’Dwyer, Leslie Vosshall
Requested Amount: $5,296,466
Subcontract Request: $290,621
Status: Rejected
NIH R01 (Co-I)
Gut microbiota mediate the interplay between immunity and glucose metabolism
Contact PI: Shulzhenko
Submitted: 2/2014
Collaborators: Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun, Aleksandra Sikora
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Requested Amount: $1,825,000
Subaward Amount: $144,905
Department: Microbiology
Person Months: 1
Location of Project: Oregon State University
Pending Dates: 09/01/2014-08/31/2019
Status: Resubmitted
NSF DOB (Co-PI)
National Science Foundation
The Elaphomyces microbiome – a model for the ecological evolution of fungal-bacterial interactions
Contact PI: Spatafora
Submitted: 4/2014
Collaborators: Joey Spatafora, Mike Castellano, Jeff Chang, Francis Martin
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
Subcontract Amount: $500,000
Person Months: 0.5
Location of Project: Oregon State University
Pending Dates: 10/2014-9/2019
Status: Rejected
NIH NIEHS (PI)
The Longituindal Impact of Triclosan Exposure on the Enteric Microbiome
Submitted: 2/2015
Collaborators: R. Tanguay (Co-I)
Department: Microbiology
College: Science
Requested Amount: $275,000
Status: Rejected
Joint Genome Institutes Community Science Program (Co-PI)
Mechanisms of Rapid Adaptation in Globally Abundant SAR11 Carbon Oxidizing Bacteria
Submitted: 6/2015
Collaborators: S. Giovannoni (PI)
Status: Pending
Preproposals/Whitepapers
NSF DEB – Systematics and Biodiversity Science (PI)
Using Phylogenetic Structure to Clarify the Evolutionary Ecological Distribution of Microorganisms
Contact PI: Sharpton
Submitted: 1/2015
Collaborators: J. O’Dwyer, S. Kembel
NSF IOS (PI)
Quantifying Ecological Impacts on Host-Microbioe Interaction in Zebrafish
Contact PI: Sharpton
Submitted: 1/2015
Collaborators: None
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation DDD (PI)
Analyzing inter-protein relationships to infer molecular, evolutionary, and ecological functions
Contact PI: Sharpton
Submitted: 2/2014
Collaborators: None
USDA AFRI (Co-PI)
Diet and microbiome interactions during age-related inflammation
Contact PI: Ho
Submitted: 2/2014
Collaborators: Emily Ho, Kathy Magnusson
NSF DEB – Systematics and Biodiversity (Co-PI)
A metagenomic and culture-based analysis of bacterial diversity in the gut microbiome of a model marine mollusk
Contact PI: King
Submitted: 1/2014
Collaborators: Gary King, Cameron Thrash
NSF DEB – Evolutionary Processes (Co-PI)
Mechanisms that produce pan-genome diversity in globally abundant bacteria
Contact PI: Giovannoni
Submitted: 1/2014
Collaborators: Stephen Giovannoni
US ARMY ONRBAA13-022 (Co-PI)
Modes of Evolution in Genome Streamlining: The Role of Enzyme Promiscuity in Microbial Survival
Contact PI: Giovannoni
Submitted: 10/2013
Collaborators: Stephen Giovannoni, Patrick Deleenheer, Trent Northen
NSF IOS – Physiological and Structural Systems Cluster (PI)
Quantifying Ecological Impacts on Host-Microbiome Interaction in Zebrafish
Submitted: 1/2015
Collaborators: None
Status: Rejected
NSF DEB – Phylogenetic Systematics Cluster (PI)
Using Phylogenetic Structure to Clarify the Evolutionary Ecological Distribution of Microorganisms
Submitted: 1/2015
Collaborators: James O’Dwyer (Co-PI, SISU), Steven Kembel (Collaborator, U. Quebec)
Status: Invited
All amounts listed are total costs
Presentations
Invited Talks
5/2015 The Microbiome Inside
TRIAD, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
4/2015 The Human Microbiome: Getting to the Guts of the Matter
Microbiology Student Association, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2/2015 Human Microbiome Evolution, Ecology, and Function
IGERT Healthy Aging Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2/2015 Data Mining the Microbiome
MathBio Seminar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1/2015 Human Microbiome Evolution, Ecology, and Function
Department of Microbiology Colloquium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
11/2014 Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Microbiome
Biology Department Seminar Series, Willamette University, Salem, OR
10/2014 High-Throughput Prediction of Microbiome Physiology
International Symposium on Gut Microbiology, Nanjing, China
5/2014 Data Mining the Microbiome
Department of Statistics Seminar. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
5/2014 Metagenomic Investigations of the Human Microbiome
Department of Nutrition Seminar. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
5/2014 From Noise to Signal: Mining Human Exome Sequences Reveals the Hunter-Gatherer Oral Microbiome
Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Spring Colloquium. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
12/2013 Metagenomic Investigations of the Microbiome
META Center Seminar. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
10/2012 Understanding the Human Microbiome through Metagenomic Analysis
CGRB Seminar Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
6/2012 Identifying novel bacteria in the human microbiome
American Society of Microbiology General Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
5/2012 Characterizing oral microbiome diversity using exome captured sequences from saliva
Stanford Symposium on the Biology of Hunter-Gatherers. Palo Alto, CA.
5/2012 Your Microbiome: What is it and why does it matter?
Gladstone Institutes Science for Administration. San Francisco, CA.
10/2011 Mining the Metagenome: Computational approaches quantify the diversity of microbial communities
San Francisco State University Dept. of Biology. San Francisco, CA.
12/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data
UCSF Evolution Club. San Francisco, CA.
11/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data
UC Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Seminar. Berkeley, CA.
6/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data
Banfield Lab Meeting. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
3/2009 Evolutionary genomics identifies proteins important to the interaction between Coccidioides and its host
Fungal Genetics Conference. Asilomar, CA.
6/2008 The comparative genomics of Coccidioides and the rise of virulence
American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. Boston MA.
11/2007 The comparative genomics of Coccidioides.
UCB College of Life Sciences Dean’s Advisory Meeting. Berkeley, CA.
4/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? A comparative genomics investigation of Coccidioides evolution.
UC Berkeley Microbiology Student Symposium. Berkeley, CA.
5/2002 The effect of light intensity on Sym 32 expression in Anthopleura elegantissima.
HHMI Student Symposium. Corvallis, OR.
Solicited
6/2015 Accurate and Rapid Metagenome Annotation Clarifies the Relationship between Enteric Microbiome Function and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. (Talk)
American Society of Microbiology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
9/2014 High-throughput annotation of metagenomes reveals community physiological variation in the mammalian microbiome (Poster)
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting, Lake Arrowhead, CA
8/2014 High-throughput annotation of metagenomes reveals community physiological variation in the mammalian microbiome (Talk)
META Center Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology, Eugene, OR
5/2012 Characterizing the diversity of the human microbiome to understand disease (Poster)
Gladstone Institutes Scientific Retreat. San Francisco, CA.
3/2012 Quantifying human microbiome functional variation using Operational Protein Families (Poster)
International Human Microbiome Consortium. Paris, France.
2/2012 Characterizing the diversity of the human microbiome to understand disease (Poster)
Gladstone Scientific Advisory Board Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
10/2011 Novel methods to quantify human microbiome diversity (Talk)
Mission Bay RIPS. UCSF, San Francisco, CA.
8/2010 PhylOTU: A high-throughput procedure that identifies Operational Taxonomic Units from metagenomic data (Poster)
International Society for Microbial Ecology Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA.
6/2010 Resolving the Hidden Biosphere: A high-throughput procedure that identifies OTUs from metagenomic data (Talk)
Evolution. Portland, OR.
5/2010 Characterizing microbial diversity from metagenomic data (Talk)
GICD Research in Progress Seminar Series. San Francisco, CA.
4/2010 Using Metagenomics to Study Uncultured Microbes: Who is out there, where do they live, and what are they doing? (Poster)
Gladstone Institutes Annual Retreat. San Francisco, CA.
11/2008 Comparative evolutionary genomics of the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides (Talk)
UC Berkeley DE Computational and Genomic Biology Retreat. Berkeley, CA.
3/2008 The comparative genomics of Neurospora (Talk)
Neurospora. Asilomar, CA.
3/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? (Poster)
Bay Area Meeting on Pathogenesis. University of California, San Francisco, CA.
3/2007 What makes a pathogenic fungus? (Poster)
Fungal Genetics Meeting. Asilomar, CA.
3/2006 The evolution of spliceosomal introns in Cryptococcus neoformans (Poster)
Bay Area Meeting on Pathogenesis. University of California, San Francisco, CA
Media Coverage
Arbanas, C. Census of microbes in healthy humans reported. Washington University Newsroom. June 13, 2012. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23956.aspx
Holden, A. From Trash to Treasure. Gladstone Institutes News. June 17, 2013. http://gladstoneinstitutes.org/node/11311
Bradley, L. You’re not alone. The Daily Barometer. Nov. 20, 2014. http://www.dailybarometer.com/news/you-re-not-alone/article_fc8964f0-713b-11e4-9b08-e32e374f4d59.html
Green, M. Genetic variety in gut critters tied to disease. The Columbia Chronicle. Feb. 2, 2015. http://www.columbiachronicle.com/health_and_tech/article_58d3b600-b8bf-11e4-a207-f3c635020d35.html
Shikh-Lesko, R. Microbiome Meals. The Scientist. Oct. 1, 2015.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44144/title/Microbiome-Meals/
Houtman, N. Gut Check. Intestinal microbes affect our health. Terra Magazine. Oct. 15, 2015. http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2015/10/gut-check/
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