Jason Underwood

Dr. Underwood is a molecular biologist at Pacific Bio focused on methods developed with specific focus on RNA and difficult regions of the genome and transcriptome using long read sequencing. He previously led a technology development group in the UW Northwest Genome Center. There he built better ways to study genomes and transcriptomes using high-throughput Illumina sequencing technologies, at production scale. At Pac Bio, Dr. Underwood’s contributions have included specialized methods development for RNA applications and DNA repair, full length cDNA sequencing (now known as IsoSeq), polyA tail length estimation and use of DNA repair enzymes in long insert template preparation. He has co-authored 6 publications and 2 patents from this work.