After an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Forensic Science and an MSc in Life and Medical Sciences, I completed my PhD at the Quadram Institute in Arjan Narbad’s group, investigating the use of high-throughput methodologies like metagenomics and metabolomics in the diagnosis of infectious intestinal diseases.

Having developed the desire to use the skills I gained in my PhD project in an applied setting, I moved on to employment within the NHS, carrying out diagnostic cancer and rare disease testing for the East of England at the Cambridge Genomics Laboratory.

Before returning to the Quadram Institute as a Laboratory Manager, I worked as a technical team lead in this laboratory, overseeing all technical aspects of the next-generation sequencing workflows. I am now using my people, process and equipment management experience to facilitate the research carried out at the Quadram Institute.