Jonathan Eisen's profile
What I do
Evolutionary biologist and science blogger. My research focuses on the mechanisms by which new processes and functions evolve. Mostly I study this in microorganisms such as extremophiles and symbionts.
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Professor
- Company
- University of California, Davis
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Interests
Evolution, genomics, microbiology, metagenomics, mutation, DNA repair.
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Publications
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Eisen JA. Environmental shotgun sequencing: its potential and challenges for studying the hidden world of microbes PLoS Biology , e82 (2007)
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Norais C, Hawkins M, Eisen JA, Hartman A, Myllkallio H, Allers T. Genetic and physical mapping of DNA replication origins in Haloferax volcanii. PLoS Genetics , e77 (2007)
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Yooseph S, Sutton G, Rusch DB, Halpern AL, Williamson SJ, Remington K, Eisen JA, Heidelberg KB, Manning G, Li W, Jaroszewski L, Cieplak P, Miller CS, Li H, Mashiyama ST, Joachimiak MP, van Belle C, Chandonia JM, Soergel DA, Zhai Y, Natarajan K, et al. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: Expanding the universe of protein families PLoS Biology , e16 (2007)
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Eisen J, Coyne R, Wu M, Wu D, Thiagarajan M, Wortman J, Badger J, Ren Q, Amedeo P, Jones K, Tallon L, Delcher A, Salzberg S, Silva J, Haas B, Majoros W, Farzad M, Carlton J, Smith R, Garg J, Pearlman R, Karrer K, Sun L, Manning G, Elde N, Turkewitz A, Asai D, Wilkes D, Wang Y, Cai H, Collins K, Stewart B, Lee S, Wilamowska K, Weinberg Z, Ruzzo W, Wloga D, Gaertig J, Frankel J, Tsao C, Gorovsky M, Keeling P, Waller R, Patron N, Cherry J, Stover N, Krieger C, del Toro C, Ryder H, Williamson S, Barbeau R, Hamilton E, Orias E. Macronuclear genome sequence of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote. PLoS biology (9) , e286 PubMed ID:(16933976, 16729848)
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Goldman B, Nierman W, Kaiser D, Slater S, Durkin A, Eisen J, Eisen J, Ronning C, Barbazuk W, Blanchard M, Field C, Halling C, Hinkle G, Iartchuk O, Kim H, Mackenzie C, Madupu R, Miller N, Shvartsbeyn A, Sullivan S, Vaudin M, Wiegand R, Kaplan H. Evolution of sensory complexity recorded in a myxobacterial genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (41) , 15200-5 (Epub 02 Oct 2006) PubMed ID:(17015832)
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- jonathan.eisen [ at ] gmail.com
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