Experience

Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Investigating microbial risk factors of HIV acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa.



Harvard Medical School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Oct 2017 - Present



EMBL

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marie Curie Fellow

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2017

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2015



Royal Holloway, University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2013

  Project synopsis: Sequenced and compared genomes of four isolates of Salmonella enterica with distinct host species distributions. Identified novel regions of nucleotide sequence and genes of novel function.Designed experiments to test a wide range of predicted functional differences, including invasion and association to porcine derived cell monolayers and IVOC tissue, fimbrial expression, biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance.Linked metabolic utilisation microarray data to genomic differences. Produced, curated and analysed genome-wide metabolic reconstructions.Identified a new Salmonella pathogenicity island and characterised its role in invasion through qRTPCR with porcine tissue and monolayer invasion and association assays with mutants lacking the island.Tested interesting phenotypes on a large population of isolates from across the UK.



AHVLA

• Canada
• Legal Services

• PhD Student

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2013

  Evolutionary microbiology.