Our People

A randomly ordered, ever-growing list of 45 anvi’o developers and contributors.


Robert Murphy Microbiologist and bioinformatician - intrested in microbial communites present in symbiosis as a source for novel secondary metabolites

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.

Matthew Lawrence Klein Software developer interested in the role of technology in supporting a more equitable future on planet earth.

Dan Utter Microbial ecologist interested in the evolution and maintenance of diversity in complex natural communities, mostly using bioinformatics


Emily Fogarty Microbiologist developing computational and wet lab strategies to study horizontal gene transfer in the human gut microbiome.

Antti Karkman Computational microbiologist interested in antibiotic resistance in the environment

Daan R. Speth Microbiologist and bioinformatician interested in understanding the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of microorganisms through genomics and wet lab analyses

Alon Shaiber Computational scientist previously studying microbial ecology, currently studying structural variation in cancer genomics, and what's next? Who knows?

Oleg Vlasovets Data Scientist studying bacteria in human gut.

Andrea Watson Microbiologist interested in combining wet lab and computational methods in a complementary way to answer fundamental questions.




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.

C. Titus Brown Bioinformatics software developer and microbiome enthusiast.

Xabier Vázquez-Campos Environmental microbiologist and bioinformatician - interested in all things 'omics, extremophiles, taxonomy and systematics, evolution...

Hilary Morrison A long and winding road to microbial ecology

Amy D. Willis Statistician and data scientist developing methods for the analysis of biodiversity, with a particular focus on the microbiome.

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.

Antonio Fernandez-Guerra Bioinformatician interested in development and application of new methodologies to analyze modern and ancient (meta)genomic data.

Tom O. Delmont Microbial ecologist who seeks to understand small and large-scale ecological patterns in the microbial world.

Patrick J. H. Bradley Bioinformatician interested in Metagenomics, Statistical Modeling, Microbial Evolution, Functional Genomics and Metabolism

Nick Youngblut Microbiologist studying methanogens and host-microbiome coevolution

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

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.

Vini Salazar Researcher, open-source developer and aspiring marine microbiologist.


Georges Kanaan Oceanographer & Astrobiologist in training. Computer scientist. Studying sea-ice bacteria.

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.


Özcan C. Esen Computer engineer interested in developing tools for the visualization of complex data.

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.

Sebastian Cristian Treitli Microbiologist and bioinformatician - interested in protists and symbiotic interactions between protists and bacteria.

Samuel Miller Computational and molecular microbiologist studying how microbes function in their environments through tRNA-sequencing, proteomics, and metagenomics.

Andrea Telatin Senior Bioinformatician at the Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, UK. Interested in metagenomics, microbial ecology, and open science.

Florian Trigodet Microbiologist using advanced computational strategies to make sense of the microbial ecology of complex habitats.

Quentin Clayssen Microbiologist and bioinformatician interested in metagenomics.


Isaac Fink Computer scientist interested in enhancing the power and accessibility of computational strategies to study microbial life.

Iva Veseli Computer scientist and biologist who leverages computational methods to study microbial metabolism in environmental metagenomes.

Kathryn Kananen Bioinformatician and computational biologist interested in population genetics, automation, and genomic architecture exploration

Mike Lee Bioinformatician exploring microbial ecology and evolution in a wide range of environments.

Jessica Pan Computer scientist interested in computational methods to investigate microbial ecosystems and making those techniques more accessible to others.

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.