# Feel free to reach out to us directly! ### Betsy Alford - My research primarily focuses on the co-evolution between plants and microbes. I have experience in amplicon analysis, metagenomics, genome assembly, and cross kingdom analysis. I regularly script in bash and python and have a working knowledge in R. - contact: baalford@ucdavis.edu --- ### Tristan De Buysscher - General bioinformatics - contact: [@Joiry](https://twitter.com/Joiry) --- ### [Rocio Martinez-Nunez](https://twitter.com/rociotmartinez) - RNA-seq and RNA things: - contact: [@rociotmartinez](https://twitter.com/rociotmartinez); rocio.martinez_nunez@kcl.ac.uk --- ### [Mike Lee](https://astrobiomike.github.io) - I focus primarily on microbial ecology and evolution, and have a good amount of experience with amplicon/marker-gene analysis, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, bash, R, and python. - contact: [@AstrobioMike](https://twitter.com/AstrobioMike); Mike.Lee@nasa.gov --- ### Rachel Lombardi - I focus on RNAseq to investigate the plant's response to pathogen infections. - contact: rllombardi@ucdavis.edu --- ### [Sichong Peng](http://sichong.site/) - My study focuses on completing functional annotation of the horse genome. I have a strong interest of applying genomics tools to non-model organisms to improve health care of companion and agricultural animals. - contact: scpeng@ucdavis.edu --- ### [Chissa Rivaldi](https://twitter.com/powerofcheez) - I am rooted in population/landscape genetics, parasite, and amplicon sequencing studies. I script in bash, python, and R, and increasingly automation flows like snakemake. - contact: [@powerofcheez](https://twitter.com/powerofcheez); clrivaldi@gmail.com --- ### [Marian L. Schmidt](https://marschmi.github.io/marschmi.github.io/) - I study the drivers of aquatic bacterial community composition & the evolutionary controls on bacterial genome size. I have experience (& am happy to help others!) with 16S rRNA amplicon data sets, recovering genomes from complex metagenomic sequencing data sets, using version control with git/GitHub, and programming in R (Yay Rmarkdown!) & bash. - contact: [@micro_marian](https://twitter.com/micro_marian); marschmi "at" utexas "dot" edu --- ### [Taylor Reiter](https://taylorreiter.github.io) - I work with metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing data & wine. I use R, python, bash, snakemake, conda, git & github to power my workflows. - contact: [@ReiterTaylor](https://twitter.com/ReiterTaylor); tereiter@udavis.edu --- ### [Shannon E.K. Joslin](https://github.com/shannonekj) - I work in the field of Conservation Genetics and Genomics. I am broadly interested in providing tools to the scientific community through mechanisms such as genome assemblies and bioinformatics workshop. My dissertation work involves population genetics of _Hypomesus transpacificus_ (delta smelt) and identification of sex determination markers in the species. I love chatting about assembly and the refinement of assemblies, population genetics pipelines, `bash` and teaching. Please reach out with any questions! - contact: [@IntrprtngGnmcs](https://twitter.com/IntrprtngGnmcs); sejoslin "at" ucdavis "dot" edu --- ### [Sateesh Peri](https://sateeshperi.github.io/) - My primary research focus is on identification and characterization of long non-coding RNAs while I spend my spare time learning and teaching computational skills (BASH, R, python, conda, git-github, snakemake, ) to biologists. - contact: [@perisateesh](https://twitter.com/perisateesh); sateeshp "at" email "dot" arizona "dot" edu