User:Mark B. Smith

Contact Info



 * My office is in building 48 (Parsons) in the maze of cubicles on the first floor


 * Mailing Address:
 * Mark B. Smith
 * 362 Memorial Drive
 * Cambridge, MA 02139
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

 * In the Spring of 2010 I joined the Alm lab and lived happily ever after.
 * In the Fall of 2009 I entered the Microbiology PhD program at MIT.
 * 2009, Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with certificates in Environmental Studies and Engineering Biology.

Research interests

 * 1) Exploring Distant-Recent Horizontal Gene Transfer (drHGT) in the human microbiome.
 * 2) Comparisons of information content between metagenomic versus marker gene (16s rRNA) sequencing.
 * 3) Evolution and transfer of antibiotic resistance mechanisms.

Useful links

 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages