Research Interests and Accomplishments

Elisabet Caler is a Bioinformatics Manager in the Bioinformatics Department at the J. Craig Venter Institute. She currently leads the Eukaryotic Annotation Group, responsible for annotation and analysis of large, complex eukaryotic genomes. Her interests include microbial pathogenesis of eukaryotic parasites of public health importance, genome architecture, gene discovery and genome annotation, comparative genomics (focusing on the identification of pathogenesis factors), repeats and transposable element and metagenomics, among others.

Prior to joining J. Craig Venter Institute (when it was TIGR, in 2002), she was a postdoctoral fellow at NIAID in the laboratory of Dr. David Sacks, and before moving to the Washington DC area, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. degree in Microbial Pathogenesis and Cell Biology from Yale University, where she studied the invasion mechanisms and signaling events during the infection of Trypanosoma cruzi to host cells.

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