The first part of my career was as a bench scientist but as I delved deeper into the world of mass spectrometry, my work became increasingly numeric.

After I started my family, I gave up the 20+hr lab experiments and formally retrained in bioinformatics. Most of my work is in Python and SQL, with some bash, html, jinja and javascript. I have a special interest the principles governing membrane protein movement within the cell.

Key publications

H. T. Parsons, T. J. Stevens (2026) A deep-learning approach for the analysis of spatial proteomics reveals subcellular Arabidopsis protein trafficking routes and multi-residency. Bioarchive, 2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.27.734956

H. T. Parsons, T.J. Stevens, H. E. McFarlane, S Vidal-Melgosa, J Griss, N Lawrence, R Butler, M M.L. Sousa, M Salemi, W G.T. Willats, C J. Petzold, J L. Heazlewood, K S. Lilley (2019) Separating Golgi Proteins from Cis to Trans Reveals Underlying Properties of Cisternal Localization, The Plant Cell, Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 2010–2034, https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00081

CI Mata , B Fabre, HT Parsons, MLATM Hertog , G Van Raemdonck ,  G Baggerman , B Van de Poel , KS Lilley and  BM Nicolaï (2018) Ethylene Receptors, CTRs and EIN2 Target Protein Identification and Quantification Through Parallel Reaction Monitoring During Tomato Fruit Ripening. Front. Plant Sci. 9:1626. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01626 

H T. Parsons, K Christiansen, B Knierim, A Carroll, J Ito, S. Batth, Andreia M. Smith-Moritz, S Morrison, P McInerney, M Z. Hadi, M Auer, A Mukhopadhyay, C J. Petzold, H V. Scheller, D Loqué, J. Heazlewood, (2012) Isolation and Proteomic Characterization of the Arabidopsis Golgi Defines Functional and Novel Components Involved in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis , Plant Physiology, Volume 159, Issue 1,  Pages 12–26, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.111.193151