Aaron Garnett

Aaron has extensive experience at the interface between molecular biology and bioinformatics, including ten years developing genomic oncology assays. As a graduate student and postdoc he studied zebrafish genomics and development and vertebrate evolution. He spent multiple summers doing fieldwork in Florida to understand the development of Amphioxus, a filter-feeding organism that burrows in the sand around Tampa Bay. Since making the change to the biotech industry he has worked on the development of sequencing instrumentation, enzyme improvement through protein engineering as well as cancer diagnostics. He led the early development of the ArcherDx Personalized Cancer Monitoring assay along with a variety of other DNA and RNA-based tests. He got his BS from the University of Wyoming, his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.