Professor Jeffrey Boore

Boore2Professor Jeffrey Boore will be visiting the University of Birmingham 16 May – 12 July 2014, hosted by Professor John Colbourne.

Professor Boore is a world recognized genome biologist returning full time to academia, after many years at the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). Jeffrey is also Founder, Owner, and Chief Executive Officer of Genome Project Solutions, Inc.

He holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Biology from Penn State University. He retired at the rank of Lt Colonel after more than 20 years in the US Air Force and Air National Guard.

At JGI, he was instrumental in guiding the transition from human genome sequencing to being a comparative genomics facility and in establishing the "Community Sequencing Program", which allocates $20 million per year to genomics projects. Jeffrey has led 22 grant-funded projects totalling over $12 million, overseen numerous whole genome sequencing projects, authored over 100 scientific publications, delivered over 230 scientific presentations, and served on numerous advisory boards and panels, including those to the National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, and National Institutes of Health.