Stephen Turner

I’m an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Research at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and advisor to several biotech startups.

My research interests include genomics and biosecurity, AI safety in biotech, infectious disease modeling and forecasting in public health, and the polygenic architecture of human disease.

Formerly: principal scientist at Colossal Biosciences (strategy, genome engineering, synthetic biology); science & technology advisor at Signature Science LLC (consultant to US Government in biosecurity, public health, defense, and national security); assistant professor at the UVA School of Medicine (public health, bioinformatics core director, teaching).

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Books: Biological Data Science with R (free online, Amazon); Data Science Team Training (free online, Amazon);