Aug 24, 2016

BioConsortia adds researchers to Science Advisory Board

BioConsortia Inc. added three experts to its Scientific Advisory Board. All three are renowned leaders in their respective fields of research and each brings experience and knowledge to different aspects of BioConsortia’s AMS (Advanced Microbial Selection) process, according to the company.

Stephen Long, is endowed university professor of crop sciences and plant biology in the Institute of Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois and also professor of crop sciences at Lancaster Environment Centre in the UK. He joined the Company’s SAB in 2015. He is currently the Newton-Abrahams Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. His research spans from plant molecular biology and in silico crop design to field analysis of the performance of novel bioenergy crops and impacts of atmospheric change on food crops in the field.

Gary Andersen is head of the ecology department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, senior scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, and adjunct professor in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley. His research focus is in the area of microbial ecology, including the examination of phylogenetic diversity in natural environments. He uses molecular approaches to study the dynamics of microbial community structure under changing environmental conditions. Andersen’s research team was part of the Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project. He has developed numerous microarray systems for measuring microbial diversity and for whole-genome profiling.

Allen Rodrigo is the director of the Research School of Biology in the Australian National University College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. He was previously professor of Biology at Duke University and Director of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. Rodrigo is a computational evolutionary biologist with expertise in phylogenetic reconstruction, statistical bioinformatics and evolutionary modelling. His recent research is focused on modeling the evolution of microbiomes and using phylogenetics to study the dynamics of cancerous tumors.