Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, PhD, Metagenome Program Lead, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify novel microbial life and viral diversity. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her postdoctoral training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She stepped into the Metagenome Program lead position in 2017. She is also the Berkeley Lab Lead for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC).
Education
- BS, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego
(magna cum laude) - PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Awards and Service
- LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, 2020
- NIH Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship, 2013 and 2012
- ZoBell Fellowship, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2008
- Lewis and Clark Field Scholar, NASA/American Philosophical Society, 2008
- Graduate Fellowship, NIH Training Program in Marine Biotechnology, 2005, 2006
- Belkin Memorial Research Scholarship, UCSD Undergraduate Scholarship, 2004
- William H. Stout Scholarship, UCSD Undergraduate Scholarship, 2003 and 2004
- UCSD Study Abroad Scholarship (James Cook University, Australia), 2003
- Board Member, Genomic Standards Consortium (2018-current)
- Steering Committee Member, International Metagenomics and Microbiome Standards Alliance (2020-current)
- Adjunct Graduate Faculty Member, Duke University (2018-2020)
- Section Head, Microbial Evolution & Genomics, F1000Prime
- Reviewer for major journals and funding agencies and philanthropic organizations including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Microbiology, Nature Methods, Nature Reviews Microbiology, PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Trends in Microbiology, Microbiome; NSF Division Of Biological Infrastructure Program; NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Program; Genome Canada Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition; NASA Exobiology; Graduate Women in Science Fellowship; Lewis and Clark Early Career Travel Fund, NASA/APS; U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Schmidt Futures
Selected Publications:
- Nayfach A, et al. 2021. A genomic catalogue of Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0718-6.
- Wood-Charlson EM, et al. 2020. The National Microbiome Data Collaborative: enabling microbiome science. Rev. Microbiol. 18:313-314.
- Roux S, et al. 2019. Cryptic inoviruses are pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s biomes. Nature Microbiol. 4: 1895-1906.
- Roux S, et al. 2019. Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG). Nature Biotechnol. 37:29.
- Bowers et al. 2017. Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome- assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea. Nature Biotechnol. 35, 725-731.
- Paez-Espino D, et al. 2016. Uncovering Earth’s virome. Nature 536, 425-430.
- Eloe-Fadrosh EA, et al. 2016. Metagenomics uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity. Nature Microbiol. 1: 15032.
- Eloe-Fadrosh EA, et al. 2016. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nature Communications 7:10476.