Curriculum Vitae Highlights
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 April 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