Faculty

Jane Carlton

Jane Carlton, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Parasitology at NYU School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of Edinburgh in 1995, and after four years of postdoctoral studies, obtained a junior faculty position at the University of Florida. After a period of bioinformatics training at the Computational Biology Branch at NCBI, NIH, she spent five years as a faculty member at the world-reknowned genome sequencing center The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland. Her area of research is comparative genomics of neglected parasites, in particular species of malaria parasite as well as other disease causing pathogens such as Theileria, Cryptosporidium and Trichomonas. Dr. Carlton has a keen interest in training scientists from developing countries to make use of genome sequence data generated by sequencing centers such as TIGR. She has taught at several W.H.O/World Bank/UNDP sponsored bioinformatics workshops in the U.S., Africa, and Brazil, as well as mentored several African M.S. students. Currently she is involved providing training and support for a Fogarty Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program in Thailand on Plasmodium vivax research. She is also the lead investigator on a training grant with the National Institute of Malaria Research in India, submitted to the Fogarty International Center, with the aim of promoting Plasmodium research in India through training in genomics and bioinformatics.