Our People
A randomly ordered, ever-growing list of 45 anvi’o developers and contributors.
Mahmoud Yousef
Computer scientist and medical student interested in exploring the intersection of bioinformatics and medicine, and how bioinformatic techniques can be used to advance the quality of medicine.
Özcan C. Esen
Computer engineer interested in developing tools for the visualization of complex data.
Jarrod J. Scott
Microbiologist interested in understanding how bacteria and archaea coalesce into complex communities and how they affect host biology, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem-level processes in marine and terrestrial systems.
Robert Murphy
Microbiologist and bioinformatician - intrested in microbial communites present in symbiosis as a source for novel secondary metabolites
Simon Roux
Viral ecologist and bioinformatician at the DOE JGI - interested in everything phage, 'omics, microbial and viral ecology and evolution, virus-host interactions, etc
Emily Fogarty
Microbiologist developing computational and wet lab strategies to study horizontal gene transfer in the human gut microbiome.
Jessica Pan
Computer scientist interested in computational methods to investigate microbial ecosystems and making those techniques more accessible to others.
Xabier Vázquez-Campos
Environmental microbiologist and bioinformatician - interested in all things 'omics, extremophiles, taxonomy and systematics, evolution...
Quentin Clayssen
Microbiologist and bioinformatician interested in metagenomics.
Tom O. Delmont
Microbial ecologist who seeks to understand small and large-scale ecological patterns in the microbial world.
Nick Youngblut
Microbiologist studying methanogens and host-microbiome coevolution
Alon Shaiber
Computational scientist previously studying microbial ecology, currently studying structural variation in cancer genomics, and what's next? Who knows?
Andrea Telatin
Senior Bioinformatician at the Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK. Interested in metagenomics, microbial ecology, and open science.
Sebastian Cristian Treitli
Microbiologist and bioinformatician - interested in protists and symbiotic interactions between protists and bacteria.
Hilary Morrison
A long and winding road to microbial ecology
Iva Veseli
Computer scientist and biologist who leverages computational methods to study microbial metabolism in environmental metagenomes.
Patrick J. H. Bradley
Bioinformatician interested in Metagenomics, Statistical Modeling, Microbial Evolution, Functional Genomics and Metabolism
A. Murat Eren (Meren)
Computer scientist and microbial ecologist interested in understanding mechanisms by which microbes interact with their surroundings, evolve, disperse, and respond to environmental change.
Antti Karkman
Computational microbiologist interested in antibiotic resistance in the environment
Jessika Fuessel
Biogeochemist and microbiologist intereted in understanding the production and fate of microbial metabolites within the context of changing environmental conditions using a multi-omics.
Dan Utter
Microbial ecologist interested in the evolution and maintenance of diversity in complex natural communities, mostly using bioinformatics
Georges Kanaan
Oceanographer & Astrobiologist in training. Computer scientist. Studying sea-ice bacteria.
Kathryn Kananen
Bioinformatician and computational biologist interested in population genetics, automation, and genomic architecture exploration
Isaac Fink
Computer scientist interested in enhancing the power and accessibility of computational strategies to study microbial life.
Vini Salazar
Researcher, open-source developer and aspiring marine microbiologist.
Samuel Miller
Computational and molecular microbiologist studying how microbes function in their environments through tRNA-sequencing, proteomics, and metagenomics.
Matthew Schechter
Microbiologist interested in combining comparative genomics and environmental metagenomics to identify genetic determinants of fitness in microbial populations in the human gut and ocean microbiome.
Florian Trigodet
Microbiologist using advanced computational strategies to make sense of the microbial ecology of complex habitats.
Antonio Fernandez-Guerra
Bioinformatician interested in development and application of new methodologies to analyze modern and ancient (meta)genomic data.
Amy D. Willis
Statistician and data scientist developing methods for the analysis of biodiversity, with a particular focus on the microbiome.
Alexander Henoch
I am a biologist-turned-computer scientist interested in understanding the influence of the environmental change on the genetic composition of microbial populations.
Matthew Lawrence Klein
Software developer interested in the role of technology in supporting a more equitable future on planet earth.
Daan R. Speth
Microbiologist and bioinformatician interested in understanding the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of microorganisms through genomics and wet lab analyses
Oleg Vlasovets
Data Scientist studying bacteria in human gut.
C. Titus Brown
Bioinformatics software developer and microbiome enthusiast.
Mike Lee
Bioinformatician exploring microbial ecology and evolution in a wide range of environments.
Andrea Watson
Microbiologist interested in combining wet lab and computational methods in a complementary way to answer fundamental questions.
Evan Kiefl
Computational biologist and software developer. For my PhD I studied how selective pressures shape the evolution of proteins in naturally occurring microbial populations.