Veterinary Science & Technology

Kristopher J Irizarry

Kristopher J Irizarry
Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Genetics and Genomics
College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, USA

Biography

University of California, Los Angeles, California; 2003-2005. Postdoctoral Fellowship UCLA Center for Pharmacogenomics: Pharmacogenomics of Antidepressant Treatment Response

University of California, Los Angeles, California; 1996-2003. PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Dissertation Title: Identification and Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Coding Regions of the Human Genome

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; 1996. Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry & Biophysics
 

Research Interest

(1) evolutionary models for use in reducing genomic complexity;
(2) algorithms and approaches for mapping phenotypes onto genotypes;
(3) single nucleotide polymorphisms across signal transduction pathways
(4) high through-put data mining methods in comparative genomics
(5) enhancing information exchange at the human / computer interface
(6) parallel computing architectures for accelerated biological discovery