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Research Interests and Accomplishments
Tanja Davidsen is currently the manager of the Annotation Engineering team at the J. Craig Venter Institute. This team handles a variety of tasks and software packages including the JCVI annotation pipelines for prokaryotic, eukaryotic, viral and metagenomic data, the Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR), The NIAID sponsored BRC Pathema, and support for all manual annotation and comparative genomics tools.
Tanja began working at JCVI's predecessor organization TIGR in 2000 as the engineer in charge of the Comprehensive Microbial Resource. The CMR currently has over 20,000 unique visitors each month and offers many tools and analysis on complete prokaryotic genomes. After JCVI was awarded the NIAID BRC contract Tanja began working as the lead engineer on the Pathema site, a comparative genomic site with a focus on the NIAID category A & B organisms Clostridium, Bacillus, Entamoeba and Burkholderia. Since 2007 Tanja has expanded her group and now leads the entire Annotation Engineering team which centralizes all annotation-related activities, include comparative genomics and web display, into one group which services the annotation needs of the entire institute.
Tanja earned her BS from The College of William and Mary in Biology and Computer Science, and her PhD from the Medical College of Virginia focusing on antibiotic resistance mechanisms in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Selengut, J. D., Haft, D. H., et al.
TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties: tools for the assignment of molecular function and biological process in prokaryotic genomes
Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Dec 06; 35: D260-D264.
Lanie, J. A., Ng, W. L., et al.
Genome Sequence of Avery's Virulent Serotype 2 Strain D39 of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Comparison With That of Unencapsulated Laboratory Strain R6
J Bacteriol. 2006 Oct 13; 189: 38-51.
Badger, J. H., Hoover, T. R., et al.
Comparative Genomic Evidence for a Close Relationship between the Dimorphic Prosthecate Bacteria Hyphomonas neptunium and Caulobacter crescentus
J Bacteriol. 2006 Oct 01; 188(19): 6841-50.
Dunning Hotopp, J. C., Lin, M., et al.
Comparative Genomics of Emerging Human Ehrlichiosis Agents
PLoS Genet. 2006 Feb 17; 2(2): e21.
Joardar, V., Lindeberg, M., et al.
Whole-genome sequence analysis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A reveals divergence among pathovars in genes involved in virulence and transposition
J Bacteriol. 2005 Sep 01; 187(18): 6488-98.
Methe, B. A., Nelson, K. E., et al.
The psychrophilic lifestyle as revealed by the genome sequence of Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H through genomic and proteomic analyses
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jul 25; 102(31): 10913-8.
Peterson, J. D., Umayam, L. A., et al.
The Comprehensive Microbial Resource
Nucleic Acids Res. 2001 Jan 01; 29(1): 123-5.
Dickinson, T. M., Archer, G. L.
Phenotypic expression of oxacillin resistance in Staphylococcus epidermidis: roles of mecA transcriptional regulation and resistant-subpopulation selection
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2000 Jun 01; 44(6): 1616-23.