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Evan Brenner

Postdoctoral Researcher

Michigan State University

Accomplishments

  • 2023–2024 NIH NLM Computational Biosciences T15 Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2024 3 first-place awards for talks with cash prizes. Noted below under ‘Talks’.

Presentations

Talks

  • 2025-05 DBMI Bytes to Bedside Seminar Series, Aurora, CO
  • 2025-02 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. DOE BRAVE symposium. Richland, WA
  • $2024-10 University of Colorado Annual Orthopedic Research Symposium & D’Ambrosia Diversity Lectureship, Aurora, CO. Won first place with a $1000 cash prize towards any (inter)national conference.
  • $2024-07 ISMB (by the International Society for Computational Biology). Montreal, Canada. Won first place (with a cash prize) for short talks at Evolution and Comparative Genomics. Also, received a registration award.
  • 2024-08 Biomedical Informatics Retreat, Denver, CO.
  • 2024-06 qCMB symposium. Fort Collins, CO
  • $2024-04 Rocky Mountain Branch, American Society for Microbiology. Boulder, CO. EB won first place (with a cash prize) for postdoc talks.

Posters

  • 2025-08 Colorado Immunology & Microbiology Conference. Steamboat Springs, CO
  • 2025-08 Biomedical Informatics Retreat, Aurora, CO
  • 2023-08 Biomedical Informatics Retreat, Aurora, CO

Publications

  1. Ghosh A^, Brenner EP^, Vang CK^, Wolfe EP^, Burke JT, Lesiyon RL, Manpearl KR, Sridhar V, Krol JD, Boyer EA, Bilodeaux JMR, Jongnarangsin K, Majlessi EJ, Ravi J*. From sequence to signature: Uncovering multiscale AMR features across multiple pathogens with supervised machine learning. bioRxiv. 2025. DOI | Dashboard
  2. Ghosh A^, Vang CK^, Brenner EP^, Ravi J*. Unlocking antimicrobial resistance with multiomics and machine learning. Trends in Microbiology. 2025. DOI
  3. Alquaddoomi FS^, Burke JT^, Sosinski L^, Mayer DA, Brenner EP, Chen SZ, Krol JD, Wolfe EP, Rubinetti VP, Amolitos S, Reason KM, Johnston JB, Ravi J*. MolEvolvR: A web-app for characterizing proteins using molecular evolution and phylogeny. bioRxiv. 2022 DOI Webapp
  4. Ravi J*, Anantharaman V, Chen SZ, Brenner EP, Datta, P, Aravind L*, Gennaro ML*. Phage-shock-protein (PSP) Envelope Stress Response: Evolutionary History & Discovery of Novel Players. mSystems. 2024. DOI | Webapp.

^Co-primary; *Co-corresponding.

Interests

  • Microbial pathogenesis
  • Phylogenomics
  • Bioinformatics

Education

  • PhD in Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, 2023

    Michigan State University

  • BS in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics, 2012

    Towson University

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