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Guy Plunkett III (aka GP3)
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I lead the sequence analysis and annotation team for the UW Genome Project,
previously known as the E. coli genome project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As such,
I am currently involved in the ongoing sequencing and comparative analysis of several other enterobacterial
pathogens. I often point out that I got into this game not so much because there was a plan to
sequence E. coli, but because there was a plan to sequence E. coli;
i.e., sequencing per se is just a tool, but to have the entire genomic sequence of my favorite
organism available ... ! For more on my work, see my "official" page.
I seemingly always wanted to be a scientist. At one time I dreamt of being an oceanographer
(no doubt a result of Lloyd Bridges in Sea Hunt!), but a winter crossing of the North Atlantic in a
troop transport ship at age 10 revealed a proneness to sea-sickness that killed that idea. Then I got a
microscope, and the microbial world joined the pantheon of dinosaurs and space ...
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