David Gellar-McGrath awarded DOE SCGSR fellowship!

This spring JPBO student David Gellar-McGrath was awarded a fellowship from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program (DOE SCGSR). David is co-advised by Dr. Virginia Edgcomb (WHOI Marine Geology and Geophysics Department) and Dr. Maria Pachiadaki (WHOI Biology Department). David’s research broadly focuses on developing tools to analyze metabolic pathways in metagenomic and multi-omics datasets, and applying these tools to characterize the metabolic potential within oxygen-depleted benthic environments.

The SCGSR research program “provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students (US citizens or lawful permanent residents) to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission.”

David’s fellowship was awarded in the priority area of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. It will allow him to work with researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on on improved metabolic modeling and prediction methods for multi-omics datasets.