Edward M. "Eddy" Rubin is an internationally known geneticist and medical researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and has served as the director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute since 2002. In addition to his research, Rubin has trained more than 50 scientists who have moved on from his laboratory to serve as faculty at leading institutions. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and scientific advisory boards, including the Board of Reviewing Editors for the journal Science, and has played key roles in directing genomic research at the DOE and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Rubin oversaw the DOE JGI's involvement in the Human Genome Project, during which time the DOE JGI worked on chromosomes 5, 13 and 16. After that project, he reoriented the DOE JGI toward applying genomics to studies related to bioenergy and the environment, sequencing and analyzing the genetic codes of hundreds of plants, fungi and microbes.
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