Anthony Fodor, PhD

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

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Anthony Fodor’s lab focuses on the application of analytical techniques to the enormous data sets of modern biology.  In addition to participating in numerous studies that have linked the state of the human microbial community to health and disease, he was a member of the data analysis team analyzing 16S rRNA data generated from the Human Microbiome Project and, more recently, the Microbiome Quality Control Project.  His research interests include algorithm development and pipeline automation in the service of establishing robust techniques for reproducible meta-analyses.  He holds a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Washington.  He is a Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he has been since 2005. 

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Speaker Disclosure Statement:

Anthony Fodor, MD, has disclosed that he has served as a consultant for Second Genome and NKarta Corporation.