David Coil

David Coil is a Project Scientist responsible for supervising undergraduate research projects in microbial ecology and genomics in the Eisen Lab.

He's also assisting existing research projects in the lab including microbial sampling, metagenomics, and genome assembly.

He does public outreach in Microbiology through the microBEnet project, which is focused on communication in the context of studies of microbiology of the built environment (including sending bacteria into space).