Rachael graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2011 with a BSc in Biochemistry. 

She then became a research assistant at the Sanger Institute, where she worked on large-scale functional genomics pipelines for the blood stages of Plasmodium knowlesi and falciparum. 

In 2021, she earned an MSc in Applied Bioinformatics from Cranfield University, focusing on barcoded pooled assays related to the plasmodium resistome. 

In 2024, she joined Richard Leggett's group at the Earlham Institute to investigate the application of Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology for the rapid characterization of preterm microbiota.

I am a Norwich Research Park Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) student working in the Haerty group at the Earlham Institute.

My research involves using bioinformatics and computational techniques to study alternative splicing in the human brain. Specifically focusing on the reconstruction of isoform level regulatory networks, to identify the co-regulation and co-expression of candidate genes across different cells and tissues in the brain. Resulting in understanding how genetic variation affects splicing regulation.

I studied my undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the UEA before arriving at EI, specifically focusing on molecular biology and computer science.

Additionally, I carried out an internship at the UEA School of Mathematics researching the mathematical modelling of epidermal wound healing. This aimed to predict the outcome of epidermal wound healing using the computational modelling of partial differential equations (PDEs).