David W. Ussery
Arkansas Center for Genomic and Ecological Medicine
USA
Biography
Professor David Ussery was born and raised in Springdale, Arkansas. He has been working with bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes since the first sequence was published in 1995. His group has published more than 150 papers since 2000, including two papers that have been cited more than a thousand times. He has been a co-applicant on grants funded totaling more than $30 million, since 2010. His popular course on Comparative Microbial Genomics, taught at The Technical University of Denmark from 1997 - 2013, is currently running for the 19th year; one-week workshops based on this course have been held in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. DU has collaborative projects with groups in the UK, Norway, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, and Spain as well as in the U.S. Prior to joining UAMS, Dr. Ussery was the Comparative Genomics Group lead at Oak Ridge National Labs, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (2013-2016). He led the Comparative Microbial Genomics group at The Technical University of Denmark from 1997 – 2013, where he has successfully supervised more than 20 Ph.D. students in bioinformatics. Dr. Ussery received a doctorate in Molecular Biology in1993 from The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford University (1992-1996). He earned his master’s degree in biophysical chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from William Jewell College (Liberty, Missouri) in 1982, and graduated from Springdale High School (Springdale, Arkansas) in 1978.
Research Interest
Bacterial genomics, Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Proteomics.