Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Ph.D.

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Ph.D.

DOE Joint Genome Institute

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Ph.D., pursues research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI). She received the 2020 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify novel microbial life and viral diversity.

Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her postdoctoral training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She stepped into the Metagenome Program lead position in 2017. She is also the Berkeley lab lead for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC).