Presenter: Prof. Igor Grigoriew

University: Fungal Genomics Program，DOE Joint Genome Institute

Time: 15:40-16:10, October 22, 2011

Venue: A102, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Introduction: Igor Grigoriev is the Head of Fungal Genomics Program, leading the effort to explore fungal phylogenetic and ecological diversity by scaled-up genome sequencing and analysis.  He earned his degree in biophysics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia), PhD in Molecular Biology from State Scientific Research Institute NIIGenetika (Moscow, Russia), and received post-doctoral training in computational structural genomics from U.C. Berkeley. After his work in pharmaceutical industry (Sugen/Pharmacia/Pfizer), he joined JGI in September of 2003, and focused his research on annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes. Igor has led the annotation and analysis of over 70 eukaryotic genomes including plants and animals, fungi and algae and has engaged over 1500 scientists worldwide into active genome analysis, resulting in over 30 manuscripts, half of them published in Science and Nature journals.

Dr. Grigoriev also leads the Eukaryotic Genomics Group and is passionate about connecting information encoded in genomes with the organisms' lifestyle, interaction with other organisms and environment through exploration of eukaryotic diversity and evolution.