An expanded PDF version of my CV is available to download here (updated Nov 22, 2012)
Appointments
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis (December 2011 – Present; Jonathan Eisen, postdoc advisor)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, University of New Hampshire (March 2010 – December 2011; W. Kelley Thomas, postdoc advisor)
2010 – PhD, University of Southampton, UK: ‘Resolving phylogenetic relationships within the order Enoplida (Phylum Nematoda)’ PDF available on FigShare
2005 – BSc Biological Sciences, King’s College London (University of London), UK
Research Grants Awarded
2012
PI, SMBE Satellite Meeting on Eukaryotic Metagenomics ($27,741 awarded for meeting being planned for April/March 2013)
Co-PI, Cloud computing support for the analysis of microbial eukaryote Illumina datasets ($5,000 awarded for Amazon AWS cloud computing resources)
2011
Co-PI, NESCent Catalysis Meeting, “High-Throughput Biodiversity Assessment using Eukaryotic Metagenetics” awarded through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), January 24-27, 2011, Durham, NC. (24 participants funded to attend)
2010
Named Postdoc, Regional Award for Cyber-Enabled Research (RACER) pilot award ($9,999) “An open access, shared database resource for eukaryotic metagenetics research”, awarded through the New England Cyberinfrastructure Consortium.
Named Postdoc, NSF DEB-1058458 ($130,472) “RAPID: Taxonomic and Metagenetic test of species distributions for marine meiofauna from the Gulf of Mexico”
Named Postdoc, Sea Grant Program Development Funds ($15,000) to support preliminary data analysis and development of marine metagenetics using 454 sequencing
2008
Systematics Research Fund Award (£1000), for molecular research on nematodes, awarded by the Systematics Association/Linnaean Society of London
Professional Training
- Advancing Towards Professorship in Biology, Ecology, and Earth Systems Sciences (April, 9-11, 2012, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; invited participant)
- NIGMS Workshop for Postdocs Transitioing to Independent Positions (March 12-13, 2012, NIH campus, Bethesda, MD; invited participant)
- Perl programming for Bioinformatics, 3-week intensive course (January 3-21, 2011, University of New Hampshire)
- ARB/SILVA training workshop (November 30 -December 3, 2010, Bremen, Germany)
Working Groups
I am currently an active participant in:
- Taxonomy and Ecosystem working groups, International Network for Scientific Investigations of Deep-sea Ecosystems (INDEEP)
- Biodiversity Working Group, Genomic Standards Consortium
- NSF AVAToL Project: Next Generation Phenomics for the Tree of Life (data provider for microbial eukaryotes)
- Invited Participant, Phylostastic! Hackathon at NESCent (June 4-8, 2012, Durham, NC) Wiki Page
- Invited Participant, NSF AVAToL: Ideas Lab for Advancing and Visualizing the Tree of Life (August, 22-26, 2011, Lake Placid, NY)
- Organizer and Co-PI, NESCent Catalysis Meeting, “High-throughput biodiversity assessment using Eukaryotic Metagenetics” (January 25-27, 2011, Durham, NC)
Invited Talks
Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes, “Moving beyond ribosomal genes: Integrating –omic approaches to understand nematode evolution and diversity” (April 3-6, 2012, Cold Spring Harbor, NY)
Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities Annual Meeting, “Eukaryotic Marker Gene Studies: Challenges and Considerations for Microbial Taxa with a Nucleus” (March 17-20, 2012, Orlando, FL)
USGS/USF joint seminar, “High-throughput biodiversity assessment of microbial eukaryotes” (September 9, 2011, St. Petersburg, FL)
Society of Nematologists 50th Anniversary Meeting, ‘Rapidly assessing nematode biodiversity using high-throughput sequencing: Case studies from marine ecosystems’ (July 20, 2011, Corvallis, OR)
iEvoBio Conference, “High-throughput biodiversity assessment of microbial eukaryotes” (June 21, 2011, Norman, OK)
EPA Cincinnati, “Metagenetic analysis of eukaryotic communities in marine sediments” (November 18, 2010, Cincinnati, OH)
Organizational Activities
- Lead Organizer, SMBE Satellite Meeting on Eukaryotic Metagenomics (April/May 2013, UC Davis)
- Organizing Committee, Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes 2014 Meeting (14-17 June 2014, Hinxton, UK)
- Organizing Committee, iEvoBio 2013, (25-26 June 2013, Snowbird, UT)
- Session Chair/Organizer (“Phylogenomics and Microbial Species Concepts”), American Society for Microbiology 2013 Annual Meeting, (18-21 May 2013, Denver, CO)
- Lead Organizer, “Bioinformatics of Biodiversity” Undergraduate Workshop at Auburn University (March 31 – April 3, 2011, Auburn, AL)
- Lead Organizer and Co-PI of NESCent Catalysis Meeting, ‘High-throughput biodiversity assessment using Eukaryotic Metagenetics’ (January 24-26, 2011, Durham, NC)
- Lead Organizer, ‘UNH Metageniuses’ group, where I organized evening meetings to encourage on-campus collaboration amongst groups utilizing high-throughput sequencing (2010-2011, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH)
- Lead Organizer and Organizing Committee Member, Natural History Museum Annual Postgraduate Conference (2008-2009, London, UK)
- Lead Organizer, Phylogenetics and Genomics Workshop at the Natural History Museum London (September 23-26, 2008, London, UK)
- Organizing Committee, events run by the London Evolutionary Research Network (LERN), including the 6th Annual Conference (September 12, 2008, London, UK) and the Autumn/Spring seminar series (2007-2008)
Community Contributions
Journal Referee Work: Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Experimental Marine Biology, Frontiers in Zoology, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Ecology Resources, PLoS One
Funding Panel Reviews: National Science Foundation (Biological Oceanography Program); Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium (New research proposals)
Membership in professional bodies: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, American Society for Microbiology
Teaching Activities
In addition to mentoring high school and undergraduate students (overseeing their genomics-focused lab projects), I have been working as a math/science tutor for private clients in the UK and USA (2007-present).
Meeting and Workshop Attendance
2012
Fungal ITS Meeting (sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), October 19-20, Boulder, Colorado
QIIME/STAMPS workshop (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program for Microbiology of the Built Environment) , June 17-18, Boulder, Colorado
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 23-26, Dublin, Ireland (Poster)
Phylotastic Hackathon, June 4-8, NESCent, Durham, North Carolina (Invited Participant)
Advancing Towards Professorship in Biology, Ecology, and Earth Systems Sciences, April 9-11, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes, April 3-6, Cold Spring Harbor, New York (Invited Speaker/Session Chair)
Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities Annual Meeting, March 17-20, Orlando, Florida (Invited Speaker)
NIGMS Workshop for Postdocs Transitioing to Independent Positions, March 12-13, NIH campus, Bethesda, Maryland
13th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium, March 4-7, Shenzhen, China
Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 20-24, Salt Lake City Utah (Poster)
UC Davis Citizen Microbiology Meeting, January 23-24, Davis, California
ScienceOnline2012, January 19-21, Durham, North Carolina (Session Chair)
2011
World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, September 26-30, Aberdeen, Scotland (Contributed Talk)
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 26-30, Kyoto, Japan (Contributed Talk)
Invited speaker, Society of Nematologists 50th Anniversary meeting, July 17-21, Corvalis, OR
Invited Speaker, iEvoBio Conference, June 21-22, Norman, Oklahoma
Third Skate Genome Annotation Workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program and the New England Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, May 23-27, Newark, Delaware
Invited Speaker, Northeast Cyberinfrastraucture Consortium, Annual Meeting, March 15, Orno, Maine
2010
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Principal Investigator (PI) Conference sponsored by the NSTC Joint Sub-Committee on Ocean Science and Technology, October 5-6, St. Petersburg, Florida (Poster)
Invited Participant, Eco-genomics, environmental barcoding and biomonitoring workshop, hosted at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, August 12-13, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
12th International Deep-sea Biology Symposium, June 7-11, Reykjavik, Iceland (Contributed Talk)
First Skate Genome Annotation Workshop, sponsored by the University of Delaware and the New England Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, May 24-28, Newark, Delaware
Invited Participant, Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic Waters, sponsored by UNH Coastal Response Research Center and Alaska’s Oil Spill Response Institute, April 20-22, Anchorage, Alaska
2009
Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 3-7, Iowa City, Iowa (Contributed Talk)
Annual Postgraduate Conference at the Natural History Museum, April 4-6, London, UK (Contributed Talk)
2008
10th Annual Young Systematists’ Forum, December 5, London, UK (Poster)
Annual Postgraduate Conference, March 14-17, Natural History Museum, London, UK (Contributed Talk)
Deep-sea DNA Barcoding Workshop sponsored by the Census for the Diversity of Marine Life (CeDAMar), May 13-18, Seneckenberg Research Institute, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2007
Benthic Marine Invertebrate Workshop sponsored by the Royal Society of the UK, January 21-26, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Deep-sea Nematode Taxonomy Workshop sponsored by MarBEF, January 8-12, University of Ghent, Belgium