The 'omics community is growing, led by a number of young investigators doing good science. To help find the cream of the crop, Genome Technology turned to established PIs for their thoughts on who is doing interesting and thought-provoking work. All of the researchers profiled here are no more than five years into their first faculty appointment, and some are not even done with their graduate studies. The profiles give a quick glimpse of these investigators' work, representing areas as diverse as single-cell genomics, the role of microRNA in disease, and the uncovering of new biomarkers.
Tanja Woyke: Single-Cell Genomics
Ryan Mills: Indels and Lots of Genomes
Philip Kim: Structural Meets Systems Biology
Paul Medvedev: Sensitive Variant Detection
Praveen Sethupathy: MicroRNA, Regulation, and Complex Diseases
Jan Korbel: Large-Scale Structural Variation
Jian Ma: Investigating Genomic Alterations
Stephen Montgomery: Functional Genomics and Molecular Diagnostics
Elizabeth Murchison: Cancer in the Wilderness
Vincent Bruno: Transcriptomics and Fungal Pathogenesis
Adam Bass: Cancer Characterization and Function
Vincent Fusaro: Transforming Translational Medicine
David Quigley: The Genetics of Susceptibility
Gregory Bowman: Resisting Resistance
Laura Tafe: Biomarker Discovery and Translation
Helge Grosshans: Regulating the Regulators
Michael Fischbach: Mining Bacterial Genomes
Summer Thyme: Protein Design for Gene Therapy
Ileana Cristea: Proteomics Meets Virology
James Noonan: The How of Human Evolution
Erin Carlson: Bacterial Perception
Gabor Balazsi: Gene Expression Control
Michelle Chang: Pathways to Next-Gen Fuel