Come and do a PhD in my group, in collaboration with our amazing partners! Precision medicine! The Oral-Gut Microbiome Axis in Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis. (Primary supervisor: Gwo-tzer Ho) An exciting group of supervisors and a highly supportive environment. Come and use cutting edge metagenomic techniques to look at the oral-gut axis in Crohn’s and Ulcerative colitis Save the planet! Characterisation and optimisation of the rumen microbiome. (Primary superviso: me!) Ruminants produce a lot of greenhouse gas – come and help us reduce this using cutting edge metagenomics and micro ..read more

I’m old. Sometimes I feel really old. I’m old enough to remember when you had to install things manually, and that’s if you were allowed to; worse would be that you depend on an IT department to install software for you. I am old enough to remember when changing servers meant reinstalling everything again from scratch. I am old enough to have been frightened by dependency hell, where you do not know all the dependencies of the software you need to install, and whether they would conflict with other software you also need to install. It’s not too long ago that my “pipelines” were simple Perl o ..read more