Travis joined Altos from the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, where he was Executive Director of Research Operations, providing executive oversight of shared scientific resources. He brings decades of experience to Altos in establishing and running a diverse portfolio of scientific cores and shared research resources. Early in his career, Travis worked on DNA sequencing technology development and mass spectrometry-based proteomics. He has been active in human stem cell research for nearly 20 years, and has overseen the establishment and renovation of more than a dozen scientific cores that range from imaging, and flow cytometry to those involving multiomics, like NGS, bioinformatics, proteomics and single cell analysis.