Vincent Bruno has joined the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an assistant professor in the department of microbiology and immunology. Bruno focuses on the pathogenomics of fungus, such as Candida albicans, an invasive human pathogen that resides in the gastrointestinal tract, and discovered 600 new genes in its genome by transcriptome sequencing. Bruno holds a PhD from Columbia University and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University.