Dr Todd Taylor

Team Leader
MetaSystems Research Team
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute

Email: taylor@riken.jp
Webpage link: http://metasystems.riken.jp/

Todd Taylor is Team Leader of the MetaSystems Research Team in the Computational Systems Biology Research Group at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Yokohama, Japan. His team's main area of research is the analysis of and development of tools for metagenomic sequence data derived from various human health- and environmental-related microbial communities. He has been a research scientist at RIKEN since 1998, and received his Ph.D. in Molecular and Medical Genetics from Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. During graduate school he conducted linkage analysis studies for various disorders and was responsible for the initial identification and mapping of the locus for Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive disorder. As an active member of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, Todd served as coordinator for chromosomes 11, 18p, and 21. He also helped to coordinate the finishing of chimpanzee chromosomes 22 and Y. Todd has been a HUGO member since 1999 and has served on the HUGO council since 2006.