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Stephen Turner is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and an advisor to several biotech startups. His research interests span genomics and biosecurity, AI safety in biotech, computational biology in synthetic biology and genome engineering, infectious disease modeling and forecasting in public health, and the polygenic architecture of human disease. Previously, he was a principal scientist at Colossal Biosciences, focusing on species restoration and conservation using synthetic biology and genome engineering. He also worked as a consultant and researcher building bioinformatics and data science solutions for the US Government in public health, defense, and national security. From 2011-2019, he was a professor in Public Health at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and founding director of UVA’s Bioinformatics Core. He taught graduate courses in data science and bioinformatics, and authored the Biological Data Science with R textbook.