With a background in parasitology and freshwater ecology, I joined BioSS in 2021 as a bioinformatician and my current research interests span the following areas:

• Mapping and extending the application of kmer analysis applied to NGS data
• Development and comparison of environmental DNA bioinformatics pipelines
• Development / adaptation of genomic applications for serverless cloud computing (following on from genomics use case of EU project Cloudbutton)
• Investigating the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in farm systems
• Reconstructing and validating mitochondrial phylogenies on incomplete datasets using imputation

The main programming languages I use are R, python, awk and shell scripting, and I have experience interfacing with AWS and Azure cloud environments.