Jon McCafferty

Jon McCafferty is a bioinformatician with a focus on data analysis and software development.  He received his PhD in bioinformatics and computational biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  He previously worked in the informatics core at the Forsyth Institute in Boston Massachusetts, where he focused on using high-throughput technologies to profile human associated microbial communities and to characterize community structure, function and diversity.  He is interested in data mining and applying machine learning algorithms to genomic data.