John P. Barton, from Pittsbught University, will be an invited professor at QBio for a few months.
John Barton's lab develops quantitative methods to study how pathogens evolve and interact with their human hosts. His goal is to improve our understanding of evolving pathogens, and ultimately to develop better therapies and vaccines to fight against them. John originally obtained his PhD in Physics from Rutgers University. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.