Dr. Christopher M. Taylor will be speaking at the Sci-Omics club session on Jan 21, 2022

3 PM CST on Metagenomics and Microbial Communities

Metagenomics and Microbial Communities | Sci-Omics club session – 21st of Jan 2022 || 3 PM CST

Title of Talk – Metagenomics and microbial communities

Dr. Christopher M. Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans.

Bio – Dr. Taylor joined LSUHSC-NO in December 2012 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology.

He is a founding member of the Microbial Genomics Resource Group and has built an informatics laboratory at the School of Medicine focused on the microbial community.

He was appointed in July 2016 as the Director of the Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Computational Biology Core of the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN) and was awarded Tenure from LSUHSC-NO in 2017.

Dr. Taylor co-organizes an annual conference on bioinformatics and computational biology for the LBRN and his research laboratory maintains several terabytes of sequence data and designs innovative software systems for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequencing experiments.

He also serves as the contact PI for a recently awarded NSF grant called Tigerfish for computational biology and bioinformatics research at LSUHSC-NO. Dr. Taylor’s research interests currently focus on dynamic changes in the vaginal microbiota associated with various STIs including BV, Chlamydia, and HIV.

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