Jonathan H. Badger
Staff Scientist
Cancer and Inflammation Program
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Badger received his doctoral training in Gary Olsen's lab in the Department of Microbiology of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, There he focused on creating computational tools for analyzing the then new data from microbial genomes. He then was a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science department of the University of Waterloo in Canada where he worked on methods of computational phylogeny with Ming Li and Paul Kearney. In 2001, he (along with Paul Kearney and other members of the group) started the bioinformatics group at Caprion, a proteomics startup in Montreal. In 2003 Dr. Badger joined the J. Craig Venter Institute (or TIGR as it was then known) where he worked on numerous genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics projects, including the initial Human Microbiome Project. In 2015 Dr. Badger joined the NCI.
Research Interest
1. Bioinformatics 2. Microbial Ecology 3. Microbiome 4. Genomics 5. Phylogeny 6. Cancer Biology 7. Computational Biology 8. Genetics and Genomics 9. Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Publications
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Badger JH, Eisen JA, Ward NL. Genomic analysis of Hyphomonas neptunium contradicts 16S rRNA gene-based phylogenetic analysis: implications for the taxonomy of the orders ‘Rhodobacterales’ and Caulobacterales. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2005 May 1;55(3):1021-6.
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Konotchick T, Dupont CL, Valas RE, Badger JH, Allen AE. Transcriptomic analysis of metabolic function in the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, across depth and season. New Phytologist. 2013 Apr 1;198(2):398-407.
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Human Microbiome Project Consortium. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome. nature. 2012 Jun 14;486(7402):207.
