He has been on the faculty since 2006 and has taught genetics to more than 1000 students. Dr. Irizarry believes strongly in the notion of student-centered learning and is a life-long student himself. Because Dr. Irizarry has pursued a multidisciplinary education in science, he views learning more as an art than as an end goal of the educational experience. Dr. Irizarry's research work includes the number of different themes includes Evolutionary models for use in reducing genomic complexity and single nucleotide polymorphisms across signal transduction pathways.