Michelle G. Giglio

Michelle Gwinn Giglio is an American biocurator specializing in genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine, she is an associate professor in the department of medicine and the associate director of analysis at the institute for genome sciences.

Life
Giglio earned a B.S. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990. She completed a Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1997. Her dissertation was titled, Studies on the regulation of competence development in Haemophilus influenzae Rd. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Genomic Research from 1997 to 1998.

From 1998 to 2007, Giglio was a staff scientist at the Institute for Genomic Research. From 2007 to 2015, she was an assistant professor in the department of medicine and the institute for genome sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She became an associate professor in 2015. She researches genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, ontology, and K–12 outreach.