(Contractor)
Education:
Ph.D., 2014, McGill University, Montreal, QC
BSc, 2003, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

Biography
Joanne Berghout is a geneticist with 15+ years’ experience exploring the role of variation in human disease, especially rare disorders and differential responses to infection. She is excited by genetics and bioinformatics entering its translational era. She’s a member of BCBB’s clinical genomics team, with previous roles as a computational geneticist at Pfizer, research faculty at University of Arizona, and outreach coordinator for MGI.