NATALIA IVANOVA Ph.D.

Scientist, Metagenomics Group

Natalia Ivanova received her Ph.D. in Biophysics from Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russia. She worked in the Laboratory of physico-chemical mechanisms of genome functioning (Institute of Cell Biophysics, Pushchino, Russia) and with Dr. E.Selkov on the EMP project. Her research experience includes biochemical and biophysical methods for study of physical properties of DNA and proteins, development and use of metabolic databases. She is an expert in carbohydrate metabolism. Natalia joined Integrated Genomics Inc. on 1996 to lead the Metabolic Reconstruction group, coordinate development of the metabolic reconstruction maps, and participate in comparative analysis of genomes and gene prediction projects. Natalia joined JGI in 2004 to lead the analysis of microbial genomes and microbial communities.

Current projects:

    Lead Scientist

• Development of a Metagenome Data Processing and Analysis pipeline

• Development of annotation pipeline in bacterial and archaeal genomes

• Development of annotation pipeline for metagenomic datasets

• Metabolic reconstruction of DNA repair, Replication and Cell Cycle

• Development of the IMG/M system.

    Collaboration Projects

• Genome analysis of Halothermothrix orenii. (in progress).

• Genome analysis of  Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 (in progress).

• Genome analysis of Methanococcoides burtonii (ongoing)

• Genome analysis of Ignicoccus sp.

• Development of the IMG systems.

Older projects:

• Metagenomic analysis of Hypersaline mats (completed)

• Metagenomic analysis of Hindgut Microbiota in Costa Rican termites for biomass conversion and cleaner energy. (completed)

• Analysis of single-cell and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth (completed)

• Development of a pipeline for gene prediction in bacterial and archaeal genomes and metagenomes (completed)

• Gene QA of Archaeal Complete Genomes

• Genome analysis of the major degrader of plant cell walls bacterium, Thermobifida fusca (completed).

• Fidelity benchmark of metagenomic analysis pipeline (publication).

• Metagenomic analysis of Olavius algarvensis Symbionts (completed)

• Genome analysis of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a (completed).

• Genome analysis of the dog intracellular pathogen Ehrlichia canis (completed)

• Metagenomic analysis of Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR). (completed)

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