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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Inverness, United Kingdom

Working at the Rivers and Lochs Institute on the AMBER project (Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers), focussing on river connectivity and biodiversity in the Ness rivers system

Stirling

Translation and editing of medical, financial and legal documents (Italian-English and English-Italian). Also experienced in Portuguese-English and Spanish-English translation.

Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

TrypanoGEN is an international collaborative research network applying an integrated approach to the study of Human African Trypanosomiasis. The objective of this major research programme is to provide a deeper understanding of the genetic basis of disease susceptibility, transmission and epidemiology that will form the basis of much-needed novel therapies and interventions. My role as bioinformatician was to provide training in Burkina Faso and Uganda and across the TrypanoGEN network, in addition to analysing and collating human genome sequence data from across West and East Africa, to look for evidence of genetic inheritance of loci with a potential association to resistance to African sleeping sickness (Genome-Wide Association Study, GWAS). I had to interrupt the post due to a coup d'etat in Burkina Faso.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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The University Of Glasgow

The aim of my research was to identify and characterise both the factors and the genome sequences/locations involved in DNA initiation in trypanosomes, which, as diverged eukaryotes, seemed to have a smaller complement of potential replication factors, shedding light on the evolution of eukayotic DNA replication. The location of binding sites and potential origins across the genome was the subject of extensive analysis, for which custom scripts were developed. The emerging pattern suggests a link between DNA replication machinery and antigenic variation, widening the scope of the project

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology

A bioinformatics and molecular analysis of antigenic variation in African trypanosomes The research project was on the silent archive.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Molecular Biology, 1St