
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
Research Scientist - Laboratory

Junpeng Zhan
Postdoctoral Associate - Laboratory

Kevin Cox
Postdoctoral Associate - Laboratory

Patricia Baldrich
Research Scientist - Laboratory

Sébastien Bélanger
Research Scientist - Laboratory
Graduate students

David Li
PhD Student - Laboratory

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

Lily O'Connor
PhD Student - Laboratory

Rachel Jouni
PhD Student - Laboratory

Ryan DelPercio
PhD Student - Laboratory

Scott Lewis
PhD Student - Bioinformatics
Staff & Associates

Caroline Henry
Laboratory Assistant

Deepti Ramachandruni
Technical Specialist - Computational

Feray Demirci
Technical Specialist - Computational

Gus Vogt
Laboratory Technician

Joanna Friesner
Editorial Associate

Josh Rothhaupt
DDPSC Bioinformatics Infrastructure Manager

Mackenzie Kasarda
Laboratory Technician

Madison McGregor
Laboratory Assistant

Mayumi Nakano
Computational Group Manager

Missy Rung-Blue
Grants Specialist

Patrick Minx
Laboratory Technician

Terri Burton
Administrative Assistant
Recent meyers lab alumni

Aleksandra Beric
PhD Student - Laboratory

Wanchana Aesomnuk
PhD Student (visiting) - Bioinformatics

Thales Cherubino
PhD Student (visiting) - Bioinformatics

Jasmine Zenderland
Laboratory Technician

Hillary Birtley
Laboratory Assistant

Spencer Navrude
Laboratory Technician
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