Air-seq: using DNA sequencing to provide early warning of airborne pathogens
Highly sensitive, real-time, in-field detection of airborne pathogens
Biography
I am a Norwich Research Park Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) PhD student working in Richard Leggett’s group.
My current work is focussed on Air-Seq. Using next generation sequencing combined with bioinformatic tools to identify crop pathogens in the air of agricultural fields.
Prior to joining the Earlham Institute, I completed an integrated masters at the University of Sheffield in Biology. My masters project involved working with knockout lines of Brachypodium distachyon and identifying pathogen resistance.