I am a principal scientist specializing in bioinformatics engineering in support of 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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