Kurt Thorn Email & Phone Number

Chief Technology Officer at ArrePath, where I lead our efforts developing AI/ML tools to accelerate drug discovery for novel antibacterials.Previously I was Senior Director of Data Science at Zymergen where I lead a data science team, encompassing many areas at the interface of biology and computation including bioinformatics, metabolic modeling, techno-economic analysis, Bayesian inference, and data visualization. We developed pipelines for analysis of high throughput screening and fermentation data, developing tools for efficient development of high throughput screening plate models, and recommendation engines for identification of protein sequences catalyzing desired enzymatic functions and prediction of beneficial genetic edits for strain engineering.Prior to this I was a professor at UCSF where I developed novel multiplex biochemical assays for disease diagnosis and directed the Nikon Imaging Center @ UCSF/QB3, a highly successful light microscopy core facility, with 300 annual users and 40 papers published per year. My areas of expertise include:• Widefield, confocal, TIRF, and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy• Fluorescence assay design and choice of fluorescence proteins• Microscopy hardware and software integration, particularly using Micro-manager• Image analysis software development in MATLAB