Do You Know Any People Doing Bioinformatics For Microbial Ecology Studies?

Question

[Chris Evelo]

Jonathan Eisen wants to compile a list of people doing bioinformatics for microbial ecology studies. Do you know any?

This was the original tweet.

If we get an interesting list of names here I will send the link to Jonathan.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

[Joseph Hughes]

Dr Chris Quince from the University of Glasgow does bioinformatics on NGS data to determine microbial communities link text

Dr David Bass from the Natural History Museum London works on the biodiversity, phylogeny, and ecology of protists using NGS and bioinformatics link text. (The question didn't specify whether it was only bacteria).

[Ihh]

Yes Chris is an excellent statistical bioinformatician. I've collaborated with him, and I suppose I count too: http://biowiki.org/IanHolmes

Answer 2

[Casey Bergman]

• Peer Bork, father of metagenomics bioinformatics
• Rob Knight - principal figure behind QIIME
• Patrick Schloss, principal person behind Mothur
• Weizhong Li, author of webMGA, etc.
• Jens Stoye, principal figure behind CARMA, etc.
• Folker Meyer and Robert Edwards, the principal figures behind MG-RAST
• Titus Brown, author of khmer

EDIT 1:

• Mihai Pop, principal figure behind Metaphyler

Answer 3

[Curtis]

(Warning: mild self-promotion)

• [?]Curtis Huttenhower[?], [?]HUMAnN[?] and [?]LEfSe[?].
• [?]Daniel Segre[?], metabolic interactions.
• [?]Claus Wilke[?], adaptation and evolution.
• [?]Chris Marx[?], systems biology.
• [?]Dan Huson[?], [?]MEGAN[?] and [?]Metasim[?].
• [?]Jeroen Raes[?], metabolic networks.
• [?]Elhanan Borenstein[?], also metabolic networks (different flavor).

Answer 4

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

I attended a conference with Philippe VANDENKOORNHUYSE.

Scientific responsibilities

Environmental genomics facilities at University of Rennes I • Genomics platforms & facilities in Western France

Teaching responsibilities

Diploma in the field of Ecology and environmental sciences at OSU de Rennes (University of Rennes I)