Dr David Studholme

About me:

My main technical expertise is in bioinformatics, especially in the context of handling data from massively parallel DNA sequencing (a.k.a. next-generation sequencing). I also have experience in laboratory-based molecular microbiology having done my PhD and postdoctoral research at Imperial College, London, in the laboratories of Prof David Leak and Prof Martin Buck, respectively. Whilst at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I contributed to the widely used Pfam and InterPro databases and developed an interest and expertise in high-throughput sequence analysis and data management. Whilst at The Sainsbury Laboratory, I became interested in exploiting large nucleotide sequence datasets generated from so-called next-generation sequencing technologies.

There are two main themes to our research:

• Understanding the evolution and emergence of infectious disease.
• Deploying bioinformatics and computational methods to address biological questions (mostly around infectious disease of plants).

Work in our laboratory is mostly computer-based and we collaborate widely with colleagues at Exeter, elsewhere in the UK and worldwide.

• 2012 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Exeter
• 1998 PhD Imperial College, London
• 1994 MSc (with Distinction), University of East Anglia
• 1993 BSc (Hons), Southampton University

• 2013-present Associate Professor, University of Exeter
• 2009-2013 Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
• 2004-2009 Head of Bioinformatics, The Sainsbury Laboratory
• 2002–2004 Computer Biologist, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• 2000-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Southampton University
• 1997-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College, London