Seminars & Colloquia
Titus Brown
University of California, Davis
"The Secret Life of Microbial Genomes"
Tuesday September 11, 2018 06:00 PM
Location: 2203, SAS Hall NCSU Main Campus
(Visitor parking instructions)
Our work has focused on data-intensive approaches to studying ecology and genomics of microbial genomes and “population” pan-genomes in environmental samples, using tools and approaches developed in our lab and in collaboration with others. We see many ways in which microbial genomes do not particularly resemble our naive expectations, which is leading us into some productive confusion around known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns in environmental microbial systems.
Our work relies heavily on novel methods and technical infrastructure development. In this talk I will present a series of vignettes on our techniques and some of the results, aimed at a general scientific audience.
This talk is part of the RED Talk series sponsored by the Data Science Initiative at NC State. Our goal is to raise awareness of the breadth and depth of data science across campus as well as to continue to grow and engage the data science community.
Special Instructions: This talk is a Data Science Initiative RED talk (https://research.ncsu.edu/dsi/red-talks/). Reception to follow talk in SAS Hall Atrium. Note: This talk counts for seminar credit for Statistics and Computer Science graduate students.
Host: Blair Sullivan, CSC