Eddy Rubin is the Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and Genomics Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA. He received a B.S. in Physics  from the University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. in Biophysics and M.D. from the University of Rochester. Following clinical training in Medical Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco he moved across the bay to join the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop computational and biological approaches to the analysis of DNA sequence data. In 2002 he became the Director of the JGI which under his leadership was one of the five leading institutions involved in completing the Human Genome Project. Presently, the JGI, representing the world’s largest non-biomedical sequencing center, is focused on sequencing organisms, plants and microbes relevant to energy and the environment. Dr. Rubin is internationally recognized for his research on the conversion of genomic data to useful biological information in a variety of fields. He has authored more than 200 research papers and current work in his laboratory includes the development of computational tools for cross-species sequence analysis, genome wide studies of human gene regulation, Neanderthal genomics, and bioenergy genomics.