Nick Grayson Email & Phone Number

Oxford, United Kingdom

Working on HIV cure strategies in children

Cambridge, United Kingdom

My main area of research is sequencing 3,000 bacterial and 500 viral type cultures from Public Heath England’s National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) and National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV). The bacterial genomes are being sequenced using PacBio technology, and will be assembled, annotated, and integrated with the NCTC databases, in addition to being publicly released to NCBI and EMBL. The virus genomes are being sequenced using Illumina technology and will be… Show more My main area of research is sequencing 3,000 bacterial and 500 viral type cultures from Public Heath England’s National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC) and National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV). The bacterial genomes are being sequenced using PacBio technology, and will be assembled, annotated, and integrated with the NCTC databases, in addition to being publicly released to NCBI and EMBL. The virus genomes are being sequenced using Illumina technology and will be similarly integrated with the NCPV.The intention is to create an integrated database linking reference cultures and reference genomes across this medically important collection.Further information is available from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/collaboration/public-health-england-reference-collections Show less

Cambridge, United Kingdom

My main area of research is investigating the variation of Epstein-Barr virus genomes. 95% of adults are thought to be infected with Epstein-Barr virus and in a small percentage of people this infection can lead to glandular fever and cancer. The samples I work with are from infected healthy individuals and also patients with Epstein-Barr virus associated cancers. The resulting genome sequences provide clues to the formation and progression of the cancers. My role includes assembling the genome… Show more My main area of research is investigating the variation of Epstein-Barr virus genomes. 95% of adults are thought to be infected with Epstein-Barr virus and in a small percentage of people this infection can lead to glandular fever and cancer. The samples I work with are from infected healthy individuals and also patients with Epstein-Barr virus associated cancers. The resulting genome sequences provide clues to the formation and progression of the cancers. My role includes assembling the genome data and writing computer programs to process, analyse and visualise the results. Show less