Kenneth Flynn

Greater New York City Area United States

Fellow at Insight Data Science

Education

I am interested in how microbial ecology and population genetics of microbial populations can be applied to a wide range of different areas and problems. For example, recent work related to the Human Microbiome project(http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp/) has demonstrated the important of understanding the bewildering amount microbial diversity on us and how it influences our health. However, this idea of looking at communities rather than individual microbes can be applied to other areas such as biofuel production, agriculture, probiotics, etc. My goal is to apply what I have learned studying complex communities of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms to other fields that could benefit from this m...