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Dr. Taylor is the Director of Bioinformatics and an Assistant Professor in the Reproductive Endocrinology Division in the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Department at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ.
Dr. Taylor’s background is in biophysics, bioinformatics, computational biology and structural biology with emphasis on human genetics and translational medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Pfizer. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry at EMD-Serono until moving to Harvard School of Public Health and then to Rutgers/RWJ. She also served several years as the Program Director of the Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at Brandeis University, where she still occasionally teaches a course in Computational Systems Biology.
Her main areas of research are in the development of mathematical and computational methods to better understand biological variation and the genetic contribution to disease, coupling clinical information with high-dimensional biomedical data from next-gen sequencing, microarray, PCR, and proteomics experiments. Some of her immediate research interests are in development of methods to better classify effects of genetic variation within interacting systems through effects in gene function and contributions to disease, developing mathematical genotype representations of variation in populations, and using machine-learning techniques to build classifiers in translational medicine research. Her scientific contributions were acknowledged with the rest of the Division’s research team at the 2010 ASRM annual meeting when the REI division received the “ASRM Prize Paper Award”, where her contribution was in developing databases, analysis systems and validated methods for high-throughput genotype analyses leading to the Division’s discoveries.
