Graduate Research Assistant
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Phone: (831) 775-2060
Fax: (831) 775-1620
email: wfrancis
Warren Francis is a Ph.D. student working in Steve Haddock's lab. His work focuses on understanding the molecular biology and chemistry of polychaetes and other luminous animals, as well as general computational approaches to annotating functions of proteins for non-model organisms. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.
Current projects:
Characterization of a fluorescent compound from the bioluminescent, pelagic polychaete Tomopteris
Investigation of the origins and function of the fluorescent pigment in the Tomopteris
Assembly strategies for transcriptomes of non-model organisms
Recent work:
"A comparison across non-model animals suggests an optimal sequencing depth for de novo transcriptome assembly"