David Ussery

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, The Technical University of Denmark

EDUCATION:
• BA, Chemistry, William Jewell, Liberty, Missouri, USA! ! 1982
• MSc, Biophysical Chemistry Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1986
• PhD, Molecular Biology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati 1993
• Post-doctoral fellow, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 1992-1996

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
David Ussery is group leader of the Comparative Microbial Genomics group in the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS), at the Department of Systems Biology-DTU. He has been working with bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes since the first sequence was published in 1995. His group has published more than 100 papers since 2000, including the most highly cited paper in the field of industrial biotechnology in 2008.

His popular DTU course on Comparative Microbial Genomics, is currently running for the 10th year; one-week workshops based on this course have been held in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. David Ussery has collaborative projects with groups in the UK, Norway, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, and Spain as well as in the US.

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