Sharon Greenblum

Sharon is a Computational Biologist at the Joint Genome Institute. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Petrov Lab (2015-2019).  Sharon comes from an engineering, systems biology, and bioinformatics background, and is interested in using computational tools to understand evolutionary processes.  She completed her PhD in Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Elhanan Borenstein’s lab, where she studied the human gut microbiome.  She worked on designing network models showing how the thousands of microbial species in the gut work together, and how cooperation and co-evolution between species creates an interconnected metabolic system that is shaped by the gut environment.  In the Petrov lab she investigated rapid adaptation to a changing environment by studying allele frequency shifts in Drosophila populations and was the principal author on the key paper in the lab of the rapid and fluctuating selection in Drosophila.