Joshua Goldford

Graduate Student Fellow, Bioinformatics, ENG & CAS

Joshua Goldford was named a Hariri Graduate Fellow in June, 2017. He uses computational tools to study how chemistry constrains the evolution of metabolic networks and shapes the structure microbial communities. His research includes reconstructing ancient biochemical networks to study to the role of phosphate in primordial metabolism, leveraging tools from mathematical optimization to understand evolutionary pressures driving molecular evolution, and using ecological models to predict microbial community structure. Goldford received a B.S. in Biochemistry and B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2010, his M.S. in Microbial Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2013, and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University in 2018.