She's a huge geek about the things microbes eat (metabolism) and gets really excited about mud that smells like rotten eggs (sulfide!). Her research combines genomics with methods from geology to take a peek at the world from the microbial perspective.
Outside the lab, Lizzy spends most of her time with her wife Nell Barash and their macroscopic zoo (dogs, cats, turtle, snake, horse). A founding member of the Subcommittee on Eukaryotic Fermentation in the UC Davis Microbiology Grad Group, Lizzy's a major beer nerd and homebrewing enthusiast. When she's not chasing microbes, Lizzy might be finding another excuse to get muddy, salty, tired, or cold outside like swimming, hiking, surfing or skiing.
For more info about things Lizzy's up to check out:
- Lizzy in the lab | Research Interests
- Twitter | @LizzyWilbanks
- Lizzy Wilbanks | LinkedIn
- Elizabeth Wilbanks | Full CV as of Fall 2013
- Elizabeth Wilbanks | Google Scholar
- Elizabeth Wilbanks | Academia.edu
- Wilbanks EG, Jaekel U, Salman V, Humphrey PT, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT, Zinder SH, Buckley DH, Druschel GK, Fike DA, Orphan VJ. (2014). Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the Sippewissett Salt Marsh. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12388.
- See my "Story behind the paper" guest post on Jonathan Eisen's blog.
- Seitzer PM, Wilbanks EG, Larsen DJ, Facciotti MT. (2012). A Monte Carlo-based framework enhances the discovery and interpretation of regulatory sequence motifs. BMC Bioinformatics 13:317. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-317.
- Lynch EA, Langille MGI, Darling A, Wilbanks EG, Haltiner C, Shao KSY, Starr MO, Teiling C, Harkins TT, Edwards RA, Eisen JA, Facciotti MT. (2012). Sequencing of Seven Haloarchaeal Genomes Reveals Patterns of Genomic Flux. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41389. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041389.
- Wilbanks EG, Larsen DJ, Neches RY, Yao AI, Wu CY, Kjolby RAS, Facciotti MT. (2012) A workflow for genome-wide mapping of archaeal transcription factors with ChIP-seq. Nucleic Acids Research. Feb. 9. doi:10.1093/nar/gks063.
- Wilbanks EG, Facciotti MT (2010) Evaluation of Algorithm Performance in ChIP-Seq Peak Detection. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011471.
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