Dr Alannah King

Bioinformatician

I'm a bioinformatician working as part of the core GPS project team. As well as coordinating my own projects, I also provide general research support for the team.

About Me

I started with the GPS team in December 2023, shortly after completing my PhD. Since then, I’ve been involved in a wide variety of research projects including specific analyses of the pneumococcal populations in China and the Netherlands, comparisons of the different methods used to define pneumococcal lineages, and deep dives into certain pneumococcal serotypes. I also help to write software to better analyse pneumococal genomes.

I did my PhD in the lab of Edmund Kunji at the MRC MBU, developing novel software to analyse transport proteins using a generalised framework of pseudosymmetry. I also provided bioinformatic support to other lab members and external collaborators.

My timeline

• Bioinformatician, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• PhD Student, MRC MBU, University of Cambridge

• Natural Sciences (Pathology) at the University of Cambridge