Dr. Nic Blouin

Works at – Research fellow at the University of Rhode Island

Teaches – Bioinformatics for Geneticists and Biologists (BIGB)

Nic is an evolutionary marine biologist who has been using computational tools to answer evolutionary and ecological questions for the past 10 years. He has been involved in several Joint Genome Institute sequencing projects and is the research lead for an additional four whole genome/transcriptome sequencing and annotation projects of marine algae and oomycetes.

He has a commitment to training of organismal biologists in the use of computational tools to improve data handling and analysis. As part of his interests in improving computational literacy for end users, he has recently joined the organizing committee for the Marine Ecological and Marine Genomics (MEEG) summer course held in Roscoff, France each year.