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Robert Markowitz
Rutgers University
Suman Das lab
My research is at the intersection of pathogen genomics, data science, and host-microbe interactions. In addition to developing methods for pathogen sequence assembly and analysis, my thesis project focuses on antigenic evolution in influenza and human immunological imprinting.