Prof. Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Debashish Bhattacharya is a biology faculty member at the University of Iowa and works in the field of algal evolution, genomics and plastid endosymbiosis. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees from Dalhousie University and his PhD from Simon Fraser University. His post-doctoral training was with Mitchell Sogin, Michael Melkonian... read moreand Klaus Weber and he joined the University of Iowa in 1998. Debashish's current areas of interest are algal comparative genomics, phylogenomics and endosymbiotic gene transfer.