Air-seq: using DNA sequencing to provide early warning of airborne pathogens
Highly sensitive, real-time, in-field detection of airborne pathogens
Biography
Sam is a postdoctoral scientist in the technology algorithms group, developing tools and pipelines for the assembly of metagenomic datasets (particularly for long-read sequencing technologies), analysing nanopore metagenomic datasets, and in-field classification using nanopore technologies.
After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Sam spent two years working as a software engineer, and then completed a PhD in mathematics at the University of York. His thesis was entitled "On the Clebsch-Gordan problem in prime characteristic".
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