BME80G Seminar: Ed Green, “DNA Forensics in The Genomics Age”

Presenter: Richard “Ed” Green, Professor of Bimolecular Engineering @ UCSC

Bio: Richard E. Green (Ed) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1972. He graduated from the University of Georgia (B.Sc. Genetics) in 1997. Before graduate school, Ed was in Peace Corps (Barentu, Eritrea) and was a lab tech at Emory University. Ed studied with Steven Brenner at the University of California, Berkeley where he got his PhD in 2005 on computational algorithms for sequence analysis and alternative splicing. As an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Svante Paabo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Ed pioneered the use of high throughput sequencing in ancient DNA. He was first author of the paper in Science describing the Neanderthal genome which won the Newcombe-Cleveland prize. As Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Ed co-directs the UCSC Paleogenomics lab. His research focuses on comparative genomics, population genetics, DNA technology development, and DNA-based forensics. Ed is co-founder of Dovetail Genomics, Claret Biosciences, and Astrea Forensics. He is a Kavli Scholar, a Searle Scholar and a Sloan Scholar, author of over 100 research manuscripts and 21 US Patents. He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, was a 2024 Santa Cruz Titan of Tech, and was awarded the 2025 International Homicide Investigators Association technology award.

Hosted by: Professor Karen Miga, BME Department