Neneh Sallah

Postdoctoral Fellow

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

Neneh's research has mainly focused on investigating the influence of genetic variation on infection response traits in diverse populations. She leverages genome sequencing technology and statistical methods to understand how both host and pathogen genomic variation underlies susceptibility to infection and influences potential disease outcome in oncogenic viral infections.

Neneh’s PhD was jointly supervised by Dr. Inês Barroso and Prof. Paul Kellam. Her research focused on exploring the genetics of host-virus interactions in Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infections in an African population cohort, including:

• How variation in host genomes influences antibody responses to infection using whole genome sequencing and genome-wide association approaches.
• Virus genomic diversity and variability using whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic approaches.

My timeline

• PhD Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & University of Cambridge

• BSc(Hons) Microbiology, University of Manchester, UK