Douglas Myers-Turnbull, PhD

Research Software Engineer

Postdoctoral Scholar, 2020-2022. Douglas has a PhD in Bioinformatics. He received a B.S. in Computer Science with a Specialization in Bioinformatics (math minor) from UCSD, where he did research in structural biology. He then worked in clinical sequencing at the Stanford School of Medicine. At UCSF, he developed biological and computational methods to discover new neuroactive compounds in vivo, using zebrafish as a model. He is interested in software design, computer vision, and bioinformatics, and in integrating diverse data types.

Lab papers

1. Deep phenotypic profiling of neuroactive drugs in larval zebrafish.

   Gendelev L, Taylor J, Myers-Turnbull D, Chen S, McCarroll MN, Arkin MR, Kokel D, Keiser MJ. Nat Commun. 2024 Nov 17.

2. Simultaneous analysis of neuroactive compounds in zebrafish.

   Myers-Turnbull D, Taylor JC, Helsell C, McCarroll MN, Ki CS, Tummino TA, Ravikumar S, Kinser R, Gendelev L, Alexander R, Keiser MJ, Kokel D. bioRxiv. 2022 Jun 15.

3. Zebrafish behavioural profiling identifies GABA and serotonin receptor ligands related to sedation and paradoxical excitation.

   McCarroll MN, Gendelev L, Kinser R, Taylor J, Bruni G, Myers-Turnbull D, Helsell C, Carbajal A, Rinaldi C, Kang HJ, Gong JH, Sello JK, Tomita S, Peterson RT, Keiser MJ, Kokel D. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 9.