Title: The Earth BioGenome Project, Beginning to Sequence Earths Eukaryotes

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Richards (Project Scientist for the Earth BioGenome Project at University of California Davis)

Stephen is an insect genomics expert. After early work helping sequence the fruit fly genome, he was faculty at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center leading the flour beetle, honeybee, pea aphid, and other insect genome projects. As a member of the i5K arthropod sequencing community, he sequenced over 50 scientifically and agriculturally important species. Recently he joined UC Davis and the Earth BioGenome Project, an audacious project to generate genome sequences for all known eukaryotic species.

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