George Golovko graduated in Computer Science from Odesa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Computer Science at the University of Houston in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He is an expert in bioinformatics, genomics, and computational biology with a particular interest in microbiomes, environmental metagenomics, and human, animal, and plant RNA and DNA sequencing and analysis.