IAIN J. ANDERSON Ph.D.

Scientist, Archaeal Genomics Group

Iain Anderson received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He spent two years doing postdoctoral research on methanogens in Barny Whitman’s lab at the University of Georgia.  Iain joined Integrated Genomics Inc. where he was responsible for the curation of transporters and the analysis of microbial genomes. He then moved for two years at The Institute for Genomic Research analyzing protist and fungal pathogens.  He joined the Genome Biology program at the JGI in 2005 to lead the Archaeal diversity genomes project. He is also responsible for the curation of amino acid metabolism in all available genomes.

Current projects:

    Lead Scientist

• Archaeal diversity sequencing project I (ongoing)
  • Analysis of Methanoculleus marisnigri, Methanocorpusculum labreanum, Ferroglobus placidus and Halorubrum lacusprofundi
• Archaeal diversity sequencing project II (ongoing)
  • Analysis of Methanohalobium evestigatum, Methanobacterium formicicum and Acidianus sp. JP7
• Sequence Analysis of cellulose-degrading microbes
  • Analysis of Byssovorax cruenta, Eubacterium cellulosolvens and Cellvibrio mixtus
• Metabolic reconstruction of amino acid metabolism
• Development of the IMG and IMG/M systems.

    Collaboration Projects

• Genome analysis of Ignicoccus sp. (ongoing)
• Genome analysis of Methanococcoides burtonii (ongoing)
• Genome analysis of members of Desulfurococcus (planned)

• Analysis of spectral bipartitioning clustering mechanisms in Archaea (ongoing)

• Development of the IMG and IMG/M systems.

Older projects:

• Genome analysis of  Staphylothermus marinus (completed).
• Genome analysis of Halothermothrix orenii. (completed).
• Genome analysis of Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum OPF8(completed)
• Genome analysis of Thermofilum pendens (completed)
• Genome analysis of the major degrader of plant cell walls bacterium, Thermobifida fusca (completed).
• Metagenomic analysis of Olavius algarvensis Symbionts (completed)
• Genome analysis of the Methanosarcina barkeri genome (completed)

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