Dan's background includes sequencing DNA at TIGR (now part of the J. Craig Venter Institute), teaching high school science in Missouri and Pennsylvania, and a few programming classes at Cornell University. Since returning to the University of Pittsburgh in 2008, Dan's combined these experiences into becoming the SEA-PHAGES Genomics and Data Management Coordinator, which makes him responsible for overseeing the phage genome sequencing portion of the HHMI SEA-PHAGES program, and for designing, coding, and maintaining two websites crucial to the success of SEA-PHAGES: phagesdb.org and seaphages.org.
Dan can be reached at:
Department of Biological Sciences
4249 5th Avenue
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 624 4313
dar78@pitt.edu