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At Cultivarium, I made computational tools to speed up microbiology by creating a database of published genetic tools, predicting conditions needed to culture new microorganisms, and identifying microbial traits that affect genetic transformation. Before that, I worked as the lead computational biologist at Trace Genomics to help measure and model soil biology. This required innovative metagenomics method, as soil is the most diverse microbial habitat on the planet. I completed my Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley in environmental microbiology. By using laboratory and computational methods to study genomes in anaerobic communities, this research identified new genes, microbes, and microbial interactions involved in the microbial use of chlorine -containing compounds.