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The faculty at the Institute for Genome Sciences have multi-disciplinary backgrounds in microbiology, infectious disease, epidemiology, immunology and other fields that further their genome research.

Our specialty areas include microbial genomics, infectious diseases, plant biology, cancer genomics, human genetic variation, bioinformatics, organismal diversity and evolution, metagenomics, and protein function. We collaborate with other investigators worldwide to help translate the data from our research into developing new diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics. View IGS Faculty Publications.

We also have appointments at the world-renowned University of Maryland School of Medicine, where we teach medical and graduate students.

Leadership Areas of Specialty Contact
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Claire M. Fraser PhD

Professor, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dean's Endowed Professor in the School of Medicine

Director, Institute for Genome Sciences

 Areas of Specialty: Human Microbiome, Comparative microbial genomics, Pathogen diversity and evolution, Host-pathogen interactions, Microbial forensics Contact: cmfraser [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Jacques Ravel PhD

Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Associate Director, Genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences

Interim Director, Institute for Genome Sciences

 Host-Microbe Community Interaction, Food-Borne Pathogen Genomics, Chemical Genomics
Lab Site 		jravel [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Owen White PhD

Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health

Associate Director, Institute for Genome Sciences

Co-Director, Center for Health-related Informatics and Bioimaging, University of Maryland School of Medicine

 Areas of Specialty: Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Comparative Genomics Contact: owhite [at] som.umaryland.edu

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Seth Ament PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Human Genetics, Neuroscience, Systems Biology
Lab Site 		sament [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Rebecca Brotman PhD, MPH
Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health

Reproductive & Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
rbrotman [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Vincent Bruno PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Fungal Pathogenesis Host-Pathogen Interactions Functional Genomics
vbruno [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Joana Carneiro Da Silva PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Eukaryotic pathogen genomics; Pathogen evolution; Genome Evolution; Vaccine Development
jcsilva [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Scott Devine PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology)

Human Genetic Variation
sdevine [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Julie Dunning Hotopp PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Host-Microbe Interactions
Lab Site 		jdhotopp [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Vonetta Edwards Ph.D.
Research Associate

Host-Pathogen Interactions, Vaginal Microbiome, STI co-infections
vedwards [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Pawel M. Gajer Ph.D.
Research Associate, Microbiology & Immunology

Microbiology, Immunology
pgajer [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Daria Gaykalova PhD
Associate Professor

Cancer Epigenetics
dgaykalova [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Michelle Gwinn-Giglio PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine, Associate Director, Analysis

Genomics, Biocuration, Ontologies, Metagenomics, Bioinformatics
mgiglio [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Tracy Hazen PhD
Assistant Professor

Infectious Diseases, Enteric Pathogenesis, Functional Genomics
thazen [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Johanna Holm PhD
Assistant Professor

Host-Microbe Community Interaction
jholm [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Bing Ma PhD
Assistant Professor

Human Microbiome, Comparative Genomics, Host-Microbe Interaction
bma [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Andrew Neuwald PhD
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Predicting Protein Function & Mechanisms, Bioinformatics
aneuwald [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Timothy O'Connor PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Human Evolutionary Genomics; Genotype/Phenotype Architecture; Computational Biology
toconnor [at] som.umaryland.edu
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David Rasko PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Infectious Diseases, Enteric Pathogenesis, Functional Genomics
Lab Site 		drasko [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Lynn Schriml PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health

Infectious Diseases, Disease Ontology
lschriml [at] som.umaryland.edu
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David Serre PhD
Professor

Genomics
Lab Site 		dserre [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Michelle Shardell PhD
Professor

Biostatistics, gerontology
mshardell [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Herve S.G. Tettelin PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Infectious diseases, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics
Lab Site 		tettelin [at] som.umaryland.edu

Affiliate Faculty Member Areas of Specialty Contact
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Susan Dorsey Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Areas of Specialty: Genetic and genomic alterations; neuromuscular performance and chronic pain plasticity.
Contact: sdorsey [at] son.umaryland.edu
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W. Florian Fricke Ph.D.
Professor, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Areas of Specialty: Human microbiome, strain-level microbiota dynamics, microbial genomics, applied bioinformatics
Contact: wffricke [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Iqbal Hamza Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Animal and Avian Sciences, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland College Park

Areas of Specialty: Genetics and Genomics of Heme Trafficking in Iron Metabolism and Anemia; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Chemical Genetics Lab site: https://hamza.umd.edu/
Contact: ihamza [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Ronna Hertzano M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Areas of Specialty: Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
Lab Site 		Contact: rhertzano [at] som.umaryland.edu
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Chamindi Seneviratne M.D.
Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialty: Molecular genetics, genomics and pharmacogenetics of Alcohol and other drug use disorders
Contact: csenevi [at] pych.umaryland.edu
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