Chad Nusbaum

Chad Nusbaum is co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute. He leads the Broad's maize and Phytophthora infestans genome projects. He oversees a variety of technology development projects as well as several microbial and fungal genome projects. In addition, he plays a leading role in the sequencing, finishing and analysis of the Broad's vertebrate genome projects.

In 1996, Chad joined the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, now part of the Broad Institute, as a research scientist involved in the creation of genomewide maps for human and mouse. In 1997, he joined the pilot project for human genome sequencing that pioneered high-throughput methods for large-scale sequencing and was responsible for building and leading the sequence finishing team. In 2001, he became co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program and, together with Bruce Birren, managed the Center's contribution to the sequencing of the human genome.

Chad received his Ph.D. in biology from MIT studying sex determination and X-chromosome-linked gene expression in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, in plant genetics, and was project leader on a gene mapping project for type I diabetes at Mercator Genetics, Inc.