Department of Biology

My current research is into human bladder disease, specifically cancer and interstitial cystitis. As a bioinformatician my interest is the functional characterisation of these diseases using next generation sequencing data, typically RNAseq and WGS. My wider interest is in functional genomics, including the role of endogenous retroviruses and structural variation in cancer, and the broader identification of eukaryotic retrotransposons.

2017 - present Postdoctoral researcher, Jack Birch Unit, Department of Biology, The University of York (Ono pharmaceutical, York Hospital)

2013 - 2017 PhD in Animal Disease and Genetic Resistance at The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh (BBSRC CASE studentship with Hy-Line International)

2009 - 2013 BSc Biological Sciences Hons. (Evolutionary Biology), The University of Edinburgh

Warren et al. (2017), A New Chicken Genome Assembly Provides Insight into Avian Genomic Structure, G3, 7:109-17.

Mason et al. (2016), A new look at the LTR retrotransposon content of the chicken genome, BMC Genomics, 17:688.

Wragg et al. (2015), Genome-wide analysis reveal the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken, BMC Genomics, 16:784.