Summer Vacation
by the STC team
We are taking our customary two week vacation. Do you think we deserve it? Looking forward to seeing you again on July 2nd !

Foto by Davide Schiano
by the STC team
We are taking our customary two week vacation. Do you think we deserve it? Looking forward to seeing you again on July 2nd !

Foto by Davide Schiano
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Rob Edwards is a microbiologist and computer scientist. He received his Ph. D. in bacterial genetics from the University of Sussex, UK, and has been at the forefront of bacterial pathogenesis, genomics, and metagenomics research. Most recently, Rob is focused on using computational science to understand the role of phages in microbial evolution. Rob is...