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                                             BIOINFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM
						College of Science
                                              George Mason University
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		                 Comparative genomic analysis of filamentous fungi
						 
                                                Natalie Fedorova


Biography:

B.S.	Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Biochemistry	
Ph.D. 	Engelhard Inst. of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia.  Molecular Biology	 

Postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, where she genetically engineered 
a live genomics-derived vaccine against bovine pneumonia, which is now being further 
developed by Prokaryon Technologies, Inc.  

After that, she worked for four years as Bioinformatics Scientist at the National Center 
for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, MD, where she provided scientific 
support for major NCBI databases including CDD, MMDB, KOG, and COG.  

Since 2004 she has been working as Bioinformatics Analyst at The Institute for Genomic 
Research (TIGR), now a division of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), in Rockville, MD.  
She is responsible for annotation and comparative analysis of several fungal genomes.