Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
Background and research interests
I am a technical specialist at Sanger working on transferring amplicon panels (BIOSCAN and ANOSPP projects) from Illumina/PacBio platforms to the latest sequencing technologies (ONT) therefore making the science more accessible, cheaper and faster.
In parallel to this I am also interested in the application of molecular biology tools to study wildlife populations. I have utilised these tools to address different research questions throughout my career such as; microsatellites to assess population genetics of otter and squid, DNA barcoding to identify cryptic cephalopod species and flying insects, PCR/qPCR assays to detect the presence of mammals through non-invasive sampling.
I am interested in population genomics, evolutionary biology and biodiversity monitoring. I wish to better understand evolutionary relationships, species boundaries and population connectivity.