Julia Brown

Education

Ph.D., Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2015

B.A., Chemistry (Biochemistry), Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2008

Research Interests

I have a deep appreciation for the complexity of microbial and viral genomes, complexity driven by billions of years of ecological interactions and co-evolution. I have a unique vantage and toolset for addressing questions related to microbial and viral ecology and evolution using integrated genomics-based approaches that comes from my career background studying virus ecology and developing bioinformatics methods. During my PhD I worked in the emerging field of viral metagenomics, as a postdoc I worked on a large, novel collection of cultivated virus and host genomes, and as a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Single Cell Genomics Center I developed new bioinformatics approaches to study single cell genomes.

As a Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, I aim to cut through the immense complexity captured within virus and microbial genomes utilizing multidimensional data collections that integrate individual, community and environmental observations to draw out novel, otherwise unseen connections and relationships between ecosystem components.