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Dr. Eisen
 Dr. Jonathan A. Eisen
Professor
UC Davis Genome Center
Medical Microbiology and Immunology AND Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Website(s):
 • Evolution textbook I am helping write
 • Old Personal Webpage
 • Support the Public Library of Science
 • Tree of Life Blog
Organism(s):
• Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans
• Chlorobaculum tepidum

Research Interests: Genomic Basis for the Origin of Novelty

  • Processes that contribute to novelty generation
    • Origin of new genes
    • Evolution of gene families
    • Lateral gene transfer
    • Symbioses
  • Constrains and biases in the generation of novelty
    • Mutation variation
    • DNA repair biases and variation
    • DNA  replication biases and variation
  • Model systems
    • Extremophiles
    • Endosymbionts
    • MIcrobial communities
  • Tools we use to study the things above
    • Genome sequencing and analysis
    • Phylogenomics
    • Bioinformatics
    • Microbial genetics
Dr. Eisen is an author on these YNP topic Publications:
1 Primary Energy Metabolism in Geothermal Environments:The Role of Carbon Monoxide
Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in YNP [TBI Text!], 2005
2 Life in Hot Carbon Monoxide: The Complete Genome Sequence of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901
PLoS Genetics, 2005
3 The complete genome sequence of Chlorobium tepidum TLS, a photosynthetic, anaerobic, green-sulfur bacterium
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002
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