John I Glass

Who is John I Glass?

Dr. John Glass is a Senior Scientist in the JCVI Synthetic Biology Group, where he directs the Mycoplasma Biology team. His expertise is in molecular biology, microbial pathogenesis, and microbial genomics. At the JCVI he led the mycoplasma minimal genome, and genome transplantation projects, and has been a key scientist in environmental genomics and viral metagenomics work.

Prior to joining the JCVI Dr. Glass spent five years in the Infectious Diseases Research Division of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly where he directed a Hepatitis C virology group and a microbial genomics group (1998-2003).

Glass earned his undergraduate (biology) and graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His Ph.D. work was on RNA virus genetics in the laboratory of Gail Wertz. He was on the faculty and did postdoctoral fellowships in the Microbiology Department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham in polio virology and mycoplasma pathogenesis (1990-1998). On sabbatical leave in Ellson Chen's lab at Applied Biosystems Inc.(1995-1997) he sequenced the genome of Ureaplasma parvum and began his study mycoplasma genomics.