Guy Plunkett III
For a number of years I lead the sequence analysis and annotation team for the UW Genome Project, previously known as the E. coli genome project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As such, I was involved in the ongoing sequencing and comparative analysis of several additional enterobacterial pathogens. I often point out that I got into this game not so much because there was a plan to sequence E. coli, but because there was a plan to sequence E. coli -- i.e., sequencing per se was just a tool, but to have the entire genomic sequence of my favorite organism available ... For more on my work, see my "official" page.
I seemingly always wanted to be a scientist. At one time I dreamt of being an oceanographer (no doubt a result of Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt!), but a winter crossing of the North Atlantic in a troop transport ship at age 10 revealed a proneness to sea-sickness that killed that idea. Then I got a microscope, and the microbial world joined the pantheon of dinosaurs and space ...
I seemingly always wanted to be a scientist. At one time I dreamt of being an oceanographer (no doubt a result of Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt!), but a winter crossing of the North Atlantic in a troop transport ship at age 10 revealed a proneness to sea-sickness that killed that idea. Then I got a microscope, and the microbial world joined the pantheon of dinosaurs and space ...