Plant Comparative Analysis Lead, Phytozome Team Lead
With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held positions at Cornell, IBM, Utah State University, and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative genomic systems as the JGI’s eukaryote research efforts expanded to include basal metazoans and plants. Working with a talented team of scientists and software engineers, Dr. Goodstein currently leads the Plant Comparative Analysis group, and is responsible for genome annotation, comparative analysis and data distribution for the JGI's direct collaborators and the wider plant science community. Dr. Goodstein’s group also develops and maintains the Phytozome Plant Genomics web portal.
