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Research Interests and Accomplishments
As Executive Vice President for Research at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Dr. Marvin E. Frazier is responsible for seeing that all research being conducted at the JCVI meets its project goals and is completed in a timely fashion. Other responsibilities include Principal Investigator of the CAMERA marine microbial ecology database project; the Synthetic Biology Research Project with Synthetic Genomics Inc; and several small sequencing projects being conducted with outside collaborators. In addition, he is involved in the analysis of the metagenomic data generated by the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition. He is also leading a team to analyze the 155 marine microbes that were sequenced with funds from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining JCVI, Dr. Frazier was Director, Life Sciences Division and Medical Sciences Division, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 1996-2004. Earlier Dr. Frazier had academic appointments at Washington State University and the University of Montana. He also served in various capacities at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Dr. Frazier earned his bachelor’s degree in Zoology and Chemistry from the University of Portland, Portland, Oregon. His Master’s and PhD degrees in Microbiology came from the University of Oregon Medical School and University of Montana respectively. Following his graduate studies he completed a one-year postdoctoral fellow in Human Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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Williamson, S. J., Rusch, D. B., et al.
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples
PLoS ONE. 2008 Jan 23; 3(1): e1456.
Levy, S., Sutton, G., et al.
The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human
PLoS Biol. 2007 Sep 04; 5(10): e254.
Rusch, D. B., Halpern, A. L., et al.
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific
PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar 13; 5(3): e77.
Yooseph, S., Sutton, G., et al.
The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families
PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar 13; 5(3): e16.
Goldberg, S. M., Johnson, J., et al.
A Sanger/pyrosequencing hybrid approach for the generation of high-quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jul 13; 103(30): 11240-5.
Frazier, M.E.
Stepping up the Pace of Discovery: The Genomes to Life Program
Preceeding of the Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB'03). 2003 May 01;: 1-8.
Frazier, M. E., Johnson, G. M., et al.
Realizing the potential of the genome revolution: the genomes to life program
Science. 2003 Apr 11; 300(5617): 290-3.