Dr. Brett Pickett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at the Brigham Young University. He completed his Ph.D. studies in Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and served as a postdoctoral fellow in Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He works to develop data mining workflows, apply machine learning techniques, and use advanced statistical workflows on the Fulton high-performance computing environment at BYU to understand better how human cells respond during infection, acute infection, or chronic disease (e.g. flu, Streptococcus, cancer, etc.).