“I met Geraldine in August 2008 and worked alongside her as a postdoctoral fellow in Roberto Kolter’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School for nearly a year. I was immediately impressed with Geraldine, finding her extremely independent, resourceful and ambitious. My first impressions were correct; shortly after joining the lab she initiated and developed an impressive large-scale microbial genome sequencing project on her own with very little oversight. This also speaks to her dedication, scientific passion and ability to clearly explain and excite others with her ideas. Geraldine is also friendly and extremely generous with her time, making her an ideal collaborator and colleague.”
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States
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Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States
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3K followers
500+ connections
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Our 2024 State Of The Workflow report is out! TL;DR? Here are my 3 key takeaways ⬇️ More companies are moving to public cloud – It's incredible to…
Our 2024 State Of The Workflow report is out! TL;DR? Here are my 3 key takeaways ⬇️ More companies are moving to public cloud – It's incredible to…
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Learned a lot and shared my research in #Montreal this week at #ISMB2024! I presented a talk about my genome assembly work on a marine worm that…
Learned a lot and shared my research in #Montreal this week at #ISMB2024! I presented a talk about my genome assembly work on a marine worm that…
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We met so many people who are doing amazing work in bioinformatics and computational biology writ large, my brain is still processing everything 🧠…
We met so many people who are doing amazing work in bioinformatics and computational biology writ large, my brain is still processing everything 🧠…
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Publications
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12 peer-reviewed publications
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Projects
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Genomics of anthrax-like Bacillus cereus megaplasmids
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See projectIn the past decade, genome sequencing of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis revealed the existence of plasmids that share extensive sequence conservation with large segments of the anthrax virulence plasmids pXO1 and pXO2. We recently found that up to 15% of environmental isolates of B. cereus sensu lato group organisms contain pXO1-like or pXO2-like plasmids as defined on the basis of conserved replicon sequences.
We are now sequencing 96 environmental…In the past decade, genome sequencing of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis revealed the existence of plasmids that share extensive sequence conservation with large segments of the anthrax virulence plasmids pXO1 and pXO2. We recently found that up to 15% of environmental isolates of B. cereus sensu lato group organisms contain pXO1-like or pXO2-like plasmids as defined on the basis of conserved replicon sequences.
We are now sequencing 96 environmental isolates of B. cereus s. l. containing pXO1-like and/or pXO2-like plasmids in order to investigate the sequence conservation of the plasmid backbones, their functional modularity and the diversity of their “passenger” genes. We are also interested in what incongruence between the phylogenies of the plasmids and the chromosome of their respective bacterial hosts can tell us about the extent of past horizontal transfer.
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English
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French
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Dutch
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