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 Sept. 2024)
Current Positions
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.
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 (2022 - present)
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
2022 Fifty 50 Community Fellow, Fifty Years Industries, LLC
2022 Berkeley Science Fellow, Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program, University of California, Berkeley
2022 Graduate Student Excellence Award Finalist, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Finalist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2022 Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award, Graduate School, Vanderbilt University
2022 James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist, Genetics Society of America
2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Select Invited Talks (2022 - present)
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
2022 Biology Department, Loras College
2022 Yeast Genetics Meeting, Genetics Society of America
2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Finalists Meeting, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2022 Molecular mycology meeting, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2022 Evolution, Am. Soc. of Naturalists, Soc. for the Study of Evo., and the Soc. of Sys. Biologists, Cleveland, OH (declined due to scheduling conflict)
2022 James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award Finalist, Genetics Society of America
2022 Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University
2022 31st Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
Select Service (2022 - present)
2024-Pres. Member, Conferences Committee, Genetics Society of America
2024-Pres. Mentor, Research & Academic Mentorship Program, Pilipino Association for Health Careers, University of California, Berkeley
2024-Pres. Co-chair, Postdocs Research Showcase, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2023-Pres. Mentor, Alumni Mentorship Program Early Career Mentorship Program, Genetics Society of America
2023-Pres. Project Partner, Data Science Discovery Program, University of California, Berkeley
2023-Pres. Chair of Alumni Affairs, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2023-Pres. Founder, Genomely Internship in Genome Sciences Program, Genomely
2020-Pres. Founder and Chief Officer, SciArt with Purpose, Shop
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
2019-2022 Inclusion Coordinator, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2019-2022 Graphic Illustrator, The Evolutionary Studies Initiative at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2017-2022 Educational outreach booth design and execution, MEGAMicrobe, Nashville, TN
2017-2022 Member, Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2017-2022 Judge, Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair, Belmont University, Nashville, TN