Ed Green

Ed Green received his B.S. in Genetics at the University of Georgia in 1997 and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. He was a pioneer in the field of high-throughput sequencing of ancient DNA as the lead bioinformatics scientist on the Neanderthal genome project. He is currently Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz and founder of Dovetail Genomics, Claret Bio, and Astrea Forensics.

Ed’s research focuses on technology development in genomics. He is a Kavli Fellow, Sloan Scholar, Searle Scholar and recipient of the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize. He has co-authored 85 peer-reviewed scientific publications and four patents for inventions in genome technologies.