Dan Rokhsar
Biomedicine
OIST
Japan
Biography
Daniel Rokhsar working as Adjunct Professor at OIST Daniel Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of the human genome project, Professor Rokhsar’s group has continued to develop computational methods applicable to the diverse eukaryotic species, which they have applied and refined in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over two dozen plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s Eukaryotic Super Program.
Research Interest
Genomics
