Dr Chris Quince from the University of Glasgow does bioinformatics on NGS data to determine microbial communities link text

Dr David Bass from the Natural History Museum London works on the biodiversity, phylogeny, and ecology of protists using NGS and bioinformatics link text. (The question didn't specify whether it was only bacteria).

• Peer Bork, father of metagenomics bioinformatics
• Rob Knight - principal figure behind QIIME
• Patrick Schloss, principal person behind Mothur
• Weizhong Li, author of webMGA, etc.
• Jens Stoye, principal figure behind CARMA, etc.
• Folker Meyer and Robert Edwards, the principal figures behind MG-RAST
• Titus Brown, author of khmer

EDIT 1:

• Mihai Pop, principal figure behind Metaphyler

(Warning: mild self-promotion)

• [?]Curtis Huttenhower[?], [?]HUMAnN[?] and [?]LEfSe[?].
• [?]Daniel Segre[?], metabolic interactions.
• [?]Claus Wilke[?], adaptation and evolution.
• [?]Chris Marx[?], systems biology.
• [?]Dan Huson[?], [?]MEGAN[?] and [?]Metasim[?].
• [?]Jeroen Raes[?], metabolic networks.
• [?]Elhanan Borenstein[?], also metabolic networks (different flavor).

I attended a conference with Philippe VANDENKOORNHUYSE.

Scientific responsibilities

Environmental genomics facilities at University of Rennes I • Genomics platforms & facilities in Western France

Teaching responsibilities

Diploma in the field of Ecology and environmental sciences at OSU de Rennes (University of Rennes I)