Research Assistant, Prof Julian Parkhill Group.
My research involves Ornithobacterium hominis and the nasopharyngeal microbiota. Mitigation of DNA contamination in low biomass samples.
Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses (2014) BMC Biology. https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z
'Candidatus Ornithobacterium hominis': insights gained from draft genomes obtained from nasopharyngeal swabs (2019) Microbial Genomics. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421346/
Freshwater monitoring by nanopore sequencing (2021) Elife. https://elifesciences.org/articles/61504
