King Jordan
Professor
Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program
King Jordan is Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a computational laboratory and his group works on a wide variety of research and development projects related to: (1) human clinical & population genomics, (2) computational genomics for public health, and (3) computational approaches to functional genomics. He is particularly interested in the relationship between human genetic ancestry and health. His lab is also actively engaged in capacity building efforts in genomics and bioinformatics in Latin America.
king.jordan@biology.gatech.edu
404-385-2224
Office Location:
EBB 2109
Georgia Institute of Technology
Epigenetics ; Computational genomics for public health. We are broadly interested in the relationship between genome sequence variation and health outcomes. We study this relationship through two main lines of investigation - human and microbial.Human:we study how genetic ancestry and population structure impact disease prevalence and drug response. Our human genomics research is focused primarily on complex common disease and aims to characterize the genetic architecture of health disparities, in pursuit of their elimination.Microbial:we develop and apply genome-enabled approaches to molecular typing and functional profiling of microbial pathogens that cause infectious disease. The goal of our microbial genomics research is to empower public health agencies to more effectively monitor and counter infectious disease agents.
Research Affiliations: Integrated Cancer Research Center, Center for Integrative Genomics
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