The following are select highlights from my Curriculum Vitae.
To see the full version of my CV, please see here: Jacob L. Steenwyk's CV (last updated July 2025)

Current Positions

Since 2024   Scientific Consultant
        FutureHouse Inc., San Francisco, CA

Since 2023   Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awardee
        Life Sciences Research Foundation

Since 2022   Postdoctoral Scholar, Laboratory of Dr. Nicole King
        Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Since 2022   Berkeley Science Fellow
        Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program, University of California, Berkeley

Advisory Positions

2023-Pres.   Advisor, ForensisGroup Inc.

Previous Positions

2024-2025   Bioinformatics Visiting Scholar, MantleBio Inc., San Francisco, CA
2022-2023   Scientific Advisor, WittGen Biotechnologies, CA
2022-2023   Scientific Consultant, Latch AI Inc., San Francisco, CA

Education

2022   Ph.D. Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2016   M.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
2015   B.A. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA

Select Awards (2023 - present)

2025   Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium, Genomics Institute of the University of California, Santa Cruz
2024   Frequency Bio Cohort 10 Member, Pillar Venture Capital
2024   Trailblazers of Tomorrow National Postdoctoral Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin
2024   Trailblazers of Tomorrow National Postdoctoral Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin
2024   Englund Emerging Scholar Award, Department of Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins Medicine
2023   JXTX + CSHL Genome Informatics Scholarship, Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2023   Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awardee, Life Sciences Research Foundation

Select Invited Talks (2023 - present)

2025   The International Choanoflagellates & Friends Meeting, Institut Pasteur, France
2025   Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium, The University of California, Santa Cruz, Genomics Institute
2025   DNA Sequences as Type, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
2025   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of California, San Francisco
2024   Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, Netherlands
2024   Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands
2024   Evolutionary Rate covariation and Related Methods Workshop, Oregon State University and Colorado State University
2024   Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology Graduate Program, the University of California, Los Angeles
2024   Southern California Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Meeting, Caltech and the University of Southern California, Caltech
2024   Postdoc Research Showcase, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley
2024   Trailblazers of Tomorrow National Postdoctoral Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
2024   Department of Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins Medicine, MD
2024   32st Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
2023   Seminar, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO
2023   Innovative Genomics Institute and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
2023   CanFunNet, Acadia University
2023   Lightening Talk, Southern California Systems Biology Conference, University of Southern California
2023   Departmental Seminar, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University
2023   Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting

Select Service (2023 - present)

2025-Pres.   Member, Special Purpose Committee, International Mycological Congress
2024-Pres.   Member, Conferences Committee, Genetics Society of America
2023-Pres.   Chair of Alumni Affairs, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2020-Pres.   Founder and Chief Officer, SciArt with Purpose, Shop
2023-2025   Mentor, Alumni Mentorship Program Early Career Mentorship Program, Genetics Society of America
2023-2025   Project Partner, Data Science Discovery Program, University of California, Berkeley
2023-2024   Executive Board Member, Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program, University of California, Berkeley
2023-2024   Chair, TAGC Undergraduate Travel Award Subcommittee, Genetics Society of America
2023-2024   Representative for Early Career Scientists, Allied Program Committee, The Allied Genetics Conference 2024