John Kenneth Colbourne joined the faculty of the University of Birmingham in 2012 and holds its inaugural Chair of Environmental Genomics. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, a founding member of the Daphnia Genomics Consortium (DGC) and of the Shanghai Consortium for Environmental Genomics and Toxicology, Section-Editor for BMC Genomics, and founding Editor of the journal Ecological and Environmental Genomics (due in 2013).

Latta IV, L.C., L.J. Weider, J.K. Colbourne and M.E. Pfrender. 2012. The evolution of salinity tolerance in Daphnia: a functional genomics approach. Ecology Letters 15(8):794-802. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01799.x (Rated “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000; http://f1000.com/716347800) Colbourne, J.K., M.E. Pfrender, D. Gilbert, W.K. Thomas, A. Tucker, T.H. Oakley, S. Tokishita, A. Aerts, G.J. Arnold, M. Kumar Basu, D.J. Bauer, C.E. Cáceres, L. Carmel, C. Casola, J.-H. Choi, C. Detter, Q. Dong, S. Dusheyko, B.D. Eads, T. Fr?hlich, K.A. Geiler-Samerotte, D. Gerlach, P. Hatcher, S. Jogdeo, J. Krijgsveld, E.V. Kriventseva, D. Kültz, C. Laforsch, E. Lindquist, J. Lopez, J.R. Manak, J. Muller, J. Pangilinan, R.P. Patwardhan, S. Pitluck, E.J. Pritham, A. Rechtsteiner, M. Rho, I.B. Rogozin, O. Sakarya, A. Salamov, S. Schaack, H. Shapiro, Y. Shiga, C. Skalitzky, Z. Smith, A. Souvorov, W. Sung, Z. Tang, D. Tsuchiya, H. Tu, H. Vos, M. Wang, Y.I. Wolf, H. Yamagata, T. Yamada, Y. Ye, J.R. Shaw, J. Andrews, T.J. Crease, H. Tang, S.M. Lucas, H.M. Robertson, P. Bork, E.V. Koonin, E.M. Zdobnov, I. Grigoriev, M. Lynch and J.L. Boore. 2011. The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex. Science 331: 555-561. (Rated “Must Read” by Faculty of 1000; http://f1000.com/8383958) Alf?ldi, J., F. Di Palma, M. Grabherr, C. Williams, L. Kong, E. Mauceli, P. Russell, C.B. Lowe, R. Glor, J.D. Jaffe, D.A. Ray, S. Boissinot, C. Botka, T.A. Castoe, J.K. Colbourne, M.K. Fujita, R. Godinez Moreno, B.F. ten Hallers, D. Haussler, A. Heger, D. Heiman, D.E. Janes, J. Johnson, P.J. de Jong, M.Y. Koriabine, P. Novick, C.L. Organ, S.E. Peach, S. Poe, D.D. Pollock, K. de Queiroz, T. Sanger, S. Searle, A.M. Shedlock, J.D. Smith, Z. Smith, R. Swofford, J. Turner-Maier, J. Wade, S. Young, A. Zadissa, Genome Sequencing Platform and Whole Genome Assembly Team, S.V. Edwards, T.C. Glenn, C.J. Schneider, J.B. Losos, E.S. Lander, M. Breen, C.P. Ponting and K. Lindblad-Toh. 2011. The genome of Anolis carolinensis, the green anole lizard, and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. Nature 477:587–591 (29 September 2011). Lee, E.-J., L. Pei, G. Srivastava, J. Trupti, G. Kushwaha, J.-H. Choi, X. Wang, K. Mockaitis, J.K. Colbourne, L. Zhang, G. Schroth, D. Xu, K Zhang and H. Shi. 2011. Targeted bisulfite sequencing by solution hybrid selection and massively parallel sequencing. Nucleic Acids Research (July 23, 2011) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr598. Jeyasingh, P.D., A. Ragavendran, S. Paland, J.A. Lopez, R.W. Sterner and J.K. Colbourne. 2011. How do consumers deal with stoichiometric constraints? Lessons from functional genomics using Daphnia pulex. Molecular Ecology (20)11:2341-52. (Rated “Must Read” by Faculty of 1000; http://f1000.com/10743958) Simon, J.-C., D. Tagu, M. Pfrender, R. Tollrian and J.K. Colbourne. 2011. Genomics of environmentally-induced phenotypes in two extremely plastic arthropods. Journal of Heredity 102 (5):512-525. (invited paper). Werren, J.H., S. Richards, C.A. Desjardins, O. Niehuis, J. Gadau, J.K. Colbourne, and the Nasonia Genome Working Group. 2010. Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species. Science 327:343-348. Shaw, J.R., M. Pfrender, B.D. Eads, R. Klaper, A. Callaghan, I. Colson, B. Jansen, D. Gilbert and J.K. Colbourne. 2007. Daphnia as an emerging model for toxicological genomics. In: Advances in experimental biology on toxicogenomics. eds. C. Hogstrand and P. Kille. Elsevier Press. Volume 2:165-219 (invited paper).