Stephen Turner

I’m Head of Genomics Strategy at Colossal Biosciences working on species restoration and conservation using synthetic biology and genome engineering. I have a M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in genetics, and did my postdoc in epidemiology. 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 left academia for consulting 2019-2023 to build bioinformatics and data science solutions for the US Government in public health, defense, and national security. I’ve been working in de-extinction and conservation genomics ever since. I love talking about genomics, bioinformatics, R, Docker, de-extinction, trail running, and homebrewing.

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I’m Head of Genomics Strategy at Colossal Biosciences working on species restoration and conservation using synthetic biology and genome engineering. I have a M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in genetics, and did my postdoc in epidemiology. 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 left academia for consulting 2019-2023 to build bioinformatics and data science solutions for the US Government in public health, defense, and national security. I’ve been working in de-extinction and conservation genomics ever since. I love talking about genomics, bioinformatics, R, Docker, de-extinction, trail running, and homebrewing.

Subscribe to my newsletter Paired Ends for regular updates on new and interesting research in bioinformatics, computational biology, and data science, with the occasional post on programming.