Author: jparker

Postdoc   I earned my PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois, where I studied how diet and the gut microbiome can influence cognition through the gut-brain axis. My earlier work, during my BS (Biology and Chemistry; minor in Physics) and MS (Food Science and Human Nutrition), ranged from studying antibiotic-resistant pathogens and investigating […]

Postdoc I am a bioinformatics researcher with research interests in microbial genome assembly, annotation, and genome evolution. My work focuses on applying computational and genomic approaches to study genome organization and comparative genomics, examining how genomes adapt to changing environment and how evolutionary processes shape cellular function.