Rebecca Wattam

  • Research Associate Professor
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Rebecca Wattam is a research associate professor in the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division of the Institute. Her background focused heavily on infectious diseases. She received her joint Ph.D. in veterinary science and entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. Her interests include bacterial pathogens and comparative genomics. She is currently involved in the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Research Center. She is funded on that project by NIAID, is part of the Pathogens Genomic Centers of Excellence funded by CDC, and is also part of the iSENTRY project funded by DARPA. She has collaborated with colleagues to publish sixteen publications since she joined the institute in 2019.

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Moraxella catarrhalis bacteria

A One-Stop Shop for Infectious Disease Research

The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), a beta website that launched in February, “is one-stop shopping for your bacterial or viral genomic research,” said Ron Kenyon, a senior scientist in the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing division of UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute.