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I have a biological background in classical botany, zoology and genetics having studied in both Wellington (Victoria University, New Zealand) [a long time ago!] and later in Canberra, (John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia).
Work for my theses involved trigonometric modeling of chromosome positioning during meiosis and the examination of lipoprotein gene variation in a Micronesian Island popluation which was at risk for both obesity and diabetes.
More recently I have been working in Cambridge (UK) on the neurobiology of cocaine addiction using in-situ hybridisation techniques to examine mRNA expression in the brain. These projects have used a wide range of biological computing tools and I have consequently developed a keen interest in this area. It is for this reason that I am pleased to be able to join the nucleotide sequence annotation group at the EBI. |
