James Morton, Ph.D.

While at the Flatiron Institute, James was an associate research scientist and Flatiron research fellow in CCB, where he focused on developing Bayesian methodologies to enable protein structural alignment and microbiome latent variable modeling. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of California San Diego in 2018, and four bachelor’s degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, engineering physics, and mathematics and statistics at Miami University in 2014.

Currently James is an investigator in the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).