
Meet Blake Meyers
The lab’s work with next-gen sequencing stretches back to ~2001, when Blake was funded by the NSF to apply “MPSS” to the analysis of gene expression in Arabidopsis. This led to the development in the Meyers lab of the first publicly-accessible browser for next-gen data. After moving to the University of Delaware in 2002, we continued to develop the application to mRNA and small RNA analyses of first MPSS, then 454, and finally the still-current Illumina SBS sequencing.
In 2005, with collaborator Pam Green, we were the first to use next-gen sequencing for the analysis of small RNAs, and in 2008, our labs co-developed “PARE” for the genome-wide analysis of cleaved mRNAs (PARE = Parallel Analysis of RNA Ends). The Meyers lab has widely applied these methods to study plant genomes and their RNA products, and the lab continues to develop and apply novel informatics approaches for the analysis of RNA function in plants.
Interviews with Blake
Lab Members
Post-doctoral & Research Scientists

Chong Teng
Post-doc - Laboratory

Junpeng Zhan
Post-doc - Laboratory

Kevin Cox
Post-doc - Laboratory

Kun Huang
Post-doc - Laboratory

Patricia Baldrich
Research Scientist - Laboratory

Sébastien Bélanger
Post-doc - Laboratory
Graduate students

Aleksandra Beric
PhD Student - Laboratory

Guna Ranjan Gurazada
PhD Student (part-time) - Computational

Pallavi Gupta
PhD Student - Computational

Rachel Jouni
PhD Student - Laboratory

Ryan DelPercio
PhD Student - Laboratory

Suresh Pokhrel
PhD Student - Laboratory
Staff & Associates

Deepti Ramachandruni
Technical Specialist - Computational

Feray Demirci
Technical Specialist - Computational

Gus Vogt
Laboratory Assistant

Joanna Friesner
Editorial Associate

Josh Rothhaupt
DDPSC Bioinformatics Infrastructure Manager

Mayumi Nakano
Computational Group Manager

Missy Rung-Blue
Grants Specialist

Terri Burton
Administrative Assistant

Vanessa Johnson
Laboratory Assistant
Recent meyers lab alumni

Reza Hammond
PhD Student - Computational

Xiaoming Li
Visiting Researcher

Donna Holesinger
DDPSC Grant Specialist

Alex Harkess
Post-doc - Laboratory

Saleh Tamim
PhD Student - Computational

Byron Rusnak
Laboratory Assistant

Patrick Hoff
Laboratory Assistant







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