Stories by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras is a biologist-turned-bioinformatician. He just submitted his Bioinformatics PhD thesis about the genome evolution of lichens. When he is not analysing the genomes of fungi he keeps himself busy with open science-related issues, covering academic publishing, open source and participatory research. He is the co-founder of openSNP, a crowdsourced open data repository for personal genomes that helped 3,700 people to donate their genomes into the public domain. Starting in November, 2017 he will be the Director of Research for Open Humans, an open research community that centers studies and projects around the participants.