I am a developer and bioinformatician mostly motivated by curiosity and the problem-solving high!
Currently a Sr. Bioinformatician at the Genomic Surveillance Unit based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, my work focuses on data analysis and pipeline development in the context of genomic surveillance and pathogen genomics. Prior to my current role, I was a research intern at EMBL-EBI, working with Dr John Lees and contributing to a python package that handles graph utilities for PopPUNK. I also initiated exploratory analysis on pneumococcal genomic variation patterns. My experience involves working with a range of bioinformatics data types and applications; some highlights include my work with P. falciparum see paper here, exploring the genomes of lab-evolved drug resistant E. coli, and identifying bacteria in clinical samples from nosocomial infections.
My experience and interests also include writing - everything from sci-fi/fantasy short fiction to popular science writing to technical writing/code documentation example - and editing. You could say my two main passions are solving interesting problems and working with compelling stories!