Rob Knight, Ph.D.
Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research at Rady Children'sDirector, Center for Microbiome Innovation
Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San DiegoRob Knight’s website
Knight is the founding director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and a professor of pediatrics, bioengineering, and computer science & engineering at UC San Diego, where he is also the Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research. Knight’s lab has produced many of the software tools and laboratory techniques that enabled high-throughput microbiome science, including QIIME and UniFrac. His work has linked microbes to a range of health conditions, enhanced our understanding of microbes in many environments, and made high-throughput sequencing accessible to thousands of researchers around the world.