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Title: "Challenges and rewards of data-intensive biology: sequencing
as a starting point for studying non-model organisms.”

From microbial ecology to organismal biology, we know very little about molecular and organismal function. The tremendous growth in sequencing capacity has given us a wonderful opportunity to explore these non-model organisms - but only if we can make some sense of the data. My chosen challenge for the last six years has been to develop tools and approaches for efficiently working with sequence data from environmental microbiology, evo-devo systems, and agricultural animals.  In this talk, I will describe some of the progress we’ve made in understanding some new biology, and discuss our integrated approach to developing new computational techniques, applying them to real biological data while working closely with collaborators, investing heavily in teaching and training, and practicing open science.  I will also discuss some of the big challenges ahead for biology more broadly, and provide some career perspective for grads about to be "foisted upon a carcass-strewn jobless dystopia.”
	Title: "Challenges and rewards of data-intensive biology: sequencing
	as a starting point for studying non-model organisms.”

	From microbial ecology to organismal biology, we know very little about molecular and organismal function. The tremendous growth in sequencing capacity has given us a wonderful opportunity to explore these non-model organisms - but only if we can make some sense of the data. My chosen challenge for the last six years has been to develop tools and approaches for efficiently working with sequence data from environmental microbiology, evo-devo systems, and agricultural animals. In this talk, I will describe some of the progress we’ve made in understanding some new biology, and discuss our integrated approach to developing new computational techniques, applying them to real biological data while working closely with collaborators, investing heavily in teaching and training, and practicing open science. I will also discuss some of the big challenges ahead for biology more broadly, and provide some career perspective for grads about to be "foisted upon a carcass-strewn jobless dystopia.”