Dr. Parsons completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 2002, where he focused on the positional cloning of genes required for development of the zebrafish notochord.He has since presented his research findings at myriad international conferences, including the eighth European Zebrafish Meeting and the ninth International Meeting on Zebrafish Development and Genetics. Dr. Parsons previously served as the principal scientist in the Department of Comparative Genomics for GlaxoSmithKline, where he generated and managed a portfolio of mouse transgenic projects, before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2004.