User:Brian Renda

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Brian Renda (an artistic interpretation)

• Brian Renda
• Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology
• 1 University Station A4800
• Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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I work in the Barrick Lab at UT Austin and am currently investigating the effects of horizontal gene transfer from the metagenome on evolutionary trajectories.

Education

• Currently Enrolled, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
• 2010, BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Research interests

1. Metagenomic Horizontal Gene Transfer
2. Natural Competence
3. Synthetic Biology/Ecology

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