Stephen J. Mondo

Divisions

DOE Joint Genome Institute

• Science Programs

Secondary Affiliation:

Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

• Comparative and Functional Genomics

Biography

Stephen Mondo completed his PhD training at Cornell University in 2013, where he studied host-endosymbiont interactions with Dr. Teresa Pawlowska. After a brief postdoc in the Bogdanove lab at Cornell studying TAL effectors present in fungal endosymbiont he joined the Fungal amd Algal genomics team at the DOE Joint Genome Institute as a Data Scientist. Here, Stephen supports the fungal scientific community through annotation of fungal genomes, comparative genomic analyses for user-driven publications and tool development for improved quality of fungal genome annotations. Stephen also conducts his own independent research in support of DOE mission objectives, primarily in the areas of epigenomics an chromatin regulation. Additionally, he now leads multi-omics data analysis, integration and visualization efforts within the Fungal and Algal genomics program.

Research Interests

Epigenetics, chromatin regulation, fungal comparative genomics, evolutionary & co-evolutionary theory, host-endosymbiont interactions, phylogenomics, early-diverging fungi