Biography

I am a professor in the Institute of Biodiversity, One Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

I studied biology at Oxford, and then did a PhD on gene family evolution with Rod Page at the University of Glasgow, followed by post-docs at the Natural History Museum in London and at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, working on various topics in phylogenetics and molecular evolution. I was subsequently an RCUK Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London for three years before joining the parasite genomics group at the Sanger Institute in 2010 as a senior staff scientist, where I stayed until joining the University of Glasgow in 2022.

I'm worked on a diverse array of parasitic species, including nematodes, schistosomes and kinetoplastids. I played a leading role in a number of de-novo genome sequencing projects, but particularly focus on projects with a strong comparative or population genomics component.