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Over the past decade and a half, I’ve accumulated a significant amount of experience across a wide spectrum of research topics, both computational and biological, with the unifying theme of "big data". Today I consider myself a genomicist; meaning, I conduct research in the three primary facets of genome research: data generation, data analysis and new method development. My research path has progressed from evolutionary computation to applied bioinformatic analysis and genomics method development and finally to where I am today, as a genomics experimentalist and Manager of a state of the art bioinformatics core facility at the University of California, Davis. My current research is on the generation, computational manipulation and interpretation of very large data sets across a wide range of biological questions, often applying techniques not originally designed for a particular data type or experiment in order to ask, and answer, new and interesting biological questions. I have had the pleasure of collaborating on projects in a wide range of subjects and problems including: functional genomics, evolutionary genomics, behavior genomics, comparative genomics, human and environmental microbiome, epi-genomics, whole genome association studies and many others.