Personal statement
Please visit our group website: https://sipbs-compbiol.github.io/
Our group specialises in computational biology and bioinformatics, particularly for microbial genomics, but also in humans and plants. We have interests in taxonomy and classification of microbes, and the relationships between genome evolution and the different capabilities of organisms. We aim to understand links between genome and phenotype, such as the ability to produce - or resist - antibiotics, to produce enzymes and other products of biotechological value, the responses of human and plant cells to disease and infection, and the ways in which microbial pathogens interact with and control their hosts.
We study these areas using a range of techniques including phylogenetics and phylogenomics, comparative genomics and pangenomics, and mathematical and structural modelling.
You can follow the group (@SCompBiol), or me personally (@widdowquinn) on Twitter.
Professional activities
- The Royal Statistical Society (External organisation)
- Member
- 20/12/2022
- Association for Computing Machinery (External organisation)
- Member
- 20/12/2022
- Access Microbiology (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 12/12/2022
- Untangling the taxonomically complex genus Streptomyces to improve pangenomic analyses
- Contributor
- 22/9/2022
- External Examiner, PhD
- Examiner
- 15/8/2022
- genomeRxiv: A Rosetta Stone for Whole-Genome Prokaryotic Classification
- Invited speaker
- 4/4/2022
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Projects
- BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Collaborative Proposal: genomeRxiv: a microbial whole-genome database and diagnostic marker design resource for classification, identification, and data sharing
- Pritchard, Leighton (Principal Investigator)
- 08-Jan-2021 - 07-Jan-2024
- Targeted Innovation in the UK Seed Potato Industry to Improve Productivity and Quality
- Pritchard, Leighton (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2021
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Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
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