Discovering new lineages of life and advancing biosecurity through computational biology and machine learning.
I lead the New Lineages of Life Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE JGI / LBNL), where we discover novel bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic microbes — and the viruses that shape them — hidden in environmental sequence data.
My work pairs machine learning with multi-omics to expand our map of microbial diversity and to build pathogen-agnostic detection systems for biosecurity.
As Biosecurity Lead at DOE JGI, I translate fundamental microbiome research into practical tools for threat detection and characterization.