Stephen Turner
I’m an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and advisor to several startups in biotech.
My research interests include genomics and biosecurity, AI safety in biotech, computational biology in synthetic biology and genome engineering, infectious disease modeling and forecasting in public health, and the polygenic architecture of human disease.
Before coming back to UVA I was principal scientist at Colossal Biosciences working on species restoration and conservation using synthetic biology and genome engineering. Prior to that I was a consultant and researcher building bioinformatics and data science solutions for the US Government in public health, defense, and national security. I was a professor in Public Health at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and founding director of UVA’s Bioinformatics Core from 2011-2019. I taught graduate courses in data science and bioinformatics, and wrote the Biological Data Science with R textbook to accompany the course.
I love talking about data science, genomics, biosecurity, R, de-extinction, and trail running.
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I’m an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and advisor to several startups in biotech.
My research interests include genomics and biosecurity, AI safety in biotech, computational biology in synthetic biology and genome engineering, infectious disease modeling and forecasting in public health, and the polygenic architecture of human disease.
Before coming back to UVA I was principal scientist at Colossal Biosciences working on species restoration and conservation using synthetic biology and genome engineering. Prior to that I was a consultant and researcher building bioinformatics and data science solutions for the US Government in public health, defense, and national security. I was a professor in Public Health at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and founding director of UVA’s Bioinformatics Core from 2011-2019. I taught graduate courses in data science and bioinformatics, and wrote the Biological Data Science with R textbook to accompany the course.
I love talking about data science, genomics, biosecurity, R, de-extinction, and trail running.
Subscribe to my newsletter Paired Ends for regular updates on new and interesting research in data science, bioinformatics, and genomics, with the occasional post on programming.