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Koonin's principal research goals include the comparative analysis of sequenced genomes and automatic methods for genome-scale annotation of gene functions.[3] His research also investigates the application of comparative genomics for phylogenetic analysis, reconstruction of ancestral life forms and building large-scale evolutionary scenarios, as well as mathematical modeling of genome evolution.[4][5][6] Koonin's research also investigates computational study of the major transitions in the evolution of life (such as the origin of eukaryotes), the evolution of eukaryotic signalin

Dr. Julie Segre received her B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics from Amherst College, where she now serves on the board of trustees.  She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Eric Lander, Ph.D., and the newly formed genome center. Dr. Segre then performed postdoctoral training with Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., an expert in skin biology, at the University of Chicago. 

Dr. Matthew B. Sullivan's research focus is on the co-evolution of microbe and virus (phage) in environmental populations, as well as the impact of marine phages on microbe-mediated global biogeochemistry. Genomics and model-systems-based experimentation revealed that cyanobacterial phages often contain host photosynthesis genes, which are expressed during infection and act as a diversity generator for their numerically-dominant, globally-distributed phtosynthetic hosts.

Liu is a statistical physicist by training, with expertise in analytical calculation, modeling and data analysis. His Ph.D. research encompassed a broad range of topics from statistical to condensed matter and biological physics. Liu received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2009. His thesis focused on the study of an unexpected universal behavior in disordered magnetic systems. This work has been featured in Europhysics News and selected for the Europe Physics Letter — Best of 2009 Collection.

Lawrence David is an Assistant Professor in GCB and the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology. Lawrence began his research career as an undergraduate at Columbia University, where he studied biological network inference with Chris Wiggins. During his Ph.D. in Computational & Systems Biology at MIT, Lawrence worked with Eric Alm to reconstruct ancient microbial genomes and incorporate ecological adaptation into models of microbial genome evolution.