I am Head of Bioinformatics at The Sainsbury Laboratory, I have a background in bioinformatics, molecular biology, statistics and systems biology.

I have an interest in genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, particularly the rapidly evolving field of Next-Generation DNA sequencing. I have been involved in particular with assembly of next-generation sequencing reads, RNA-seq and genetic polymorphism detection with resequencing.

The focus of my current research is the development of new tools and methods for visualisation of next-generation sequencing data and the creation of algorithms for detection of genetic polymorphisms from the same data.

I am involved in a variety of collaborative projects with groups in The Sainsbury Laboratory and The Genome Analysis Centre. The combined scope of these projects includes phosphoproteomics, transcriptomics of Arabidopsis and small RNA network and locus analysis.

I also lecture on computational biology courses at the University of East Anglia