Daniel McDonald
UCSD
Dr. McDonald is the Scientific Director for The Microsetta Initiative and the American Gut Project, run by the School of Medicine at UC San Diego. His research focuses on the complex microbial communities associated with humans, with the environment, and how to scale microbiome analysis to large sample sizes. He has played central roles in the development of highly cited analysis tools, such as QIIME, Qiita, and PICRUSt, a Genomic Standards Consortium file format called BIOM, and Greengenes, one of the main microbial taxonomies used in the field. Dr. McDonald received a BS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
About out Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how we use and protects any information that you give us when you use this site. This policy applies to personal information (as defined below) collected from Seerave Foundation online resources and communications that display a link to this policy, such as this Website, online contact forms, e-mail, Newsletter subscriptions, and other online tools. This policy does not apply to personal information collected from offline resources and communications. This policy also does not apply to third-party online resources to which this Website may link, where Santorio does not control the content or the privacy practices of such resources.
Santorio is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. That’s why we have taken the necessary steps to meet worldwide data privacy requirements, according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the laws of Switzerland, which regulate the storage, process, access, and transfer of personal data.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Website, we will only collect it if you choose to give it to us. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties for their own marketing use unless you explicitly give us permission to do so. You can be assured that the collected personal information will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Please review this privacy statement if you wish to know more about how we collect, use, share, and protect information online.
What we collect
We may collect the following types of information:
Personal identifiable information: You can visit our Website without providing any personal information.
We may collect it only when you choose to submit it to us.
We may also collect other information about you that you provide by responding to our questions or surveys.
For Human Resources purposes only: Personal documents such as copies of an identity card, medical insurance card, Curriculum Vitae, etc.
Aggregate information: We sometimes gather anonymous data to produce aggregated statistical information, such as the number of visitors to the Website, origin of the traffic, etc. which we use to improve our products and services.
Automatically collected information: Automatic technologies and services we use may include, for example, collection of web server logs/IP addresses, cookies (read more on this below), etc. These tracking technologies do not automatically obtain personally identifiable information about you.
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
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The Cookies We Set
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
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Third Party Cookies
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This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
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Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
In some cases, we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; LinkedIn, Twitter, Vimeo, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
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