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Dylan Chivian

Computational Biologist Research Scientist

Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

  • Comparative and Functional Genomics

Secondary Affiliation: Biological Systems and Engineering

  • BioEngineering & BioMedical Sciences

Building: 977, Room 221
Mail Stop: 972R525
Phone: (510) 495-8266
Fax: (510) 495-2966
DCChivian@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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The DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), http://kbase.us

Research Interests

* Computational infrastructure development for analysis of microbial community functional structure, primarily using sequencing data.

* Phylogenomic approaches for functional dissection.

* Microbial community substructure such as interaction networks of minimal viable functional cohorts.

* Principles of functional guild dynamics and the determination of whether rare species contribute to community phenotype, stability, and efficiency.

* Development of lab consortia model systems.

* Modeling of microbial community population, physiological state, and genetic adaptation in response to physical, chemical, genetic, and species perturbation.

* Manipulation of natural enzymes by structural design to engender new behaviors.

* Much of this work involves developing infrastructure to support such investigations, including the Robetta protein structure prediction server (www.robetta.org), the Genome-Linked Application for Metabolic Maps (GLAMM) metabolic network viewer (glamm.lbl.gov), the MicrobesOnline (www.microbesonline.org) and metaMicrobesOnline (meta.microbesonline.org) phylogenomic analysis platforms for microbes and microbial communities, and most recently the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (kbase.us) project.

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Dylan Chivian, Microbial Explorer

May 9, 2023

Dylan Chivian’s upbringing motivated him to help humanity and the natural world. Now a microbial scientist and coding engineer with the Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), he’s building software tools that aim to share microbial genomic information and promote collaboration across the broader scientific community.

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