Dr Rhys Farrer

About me:

My research uses several sequencing technologies to study the patterns of genomic, transcriptomic, and gene-regulatory variation between and within populations of microbial pathogens.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics and my current projects focus on the evolution of virulence across several fungal genera with a particular focus on Candida, Cryptococcus and Chytridiomycota species.

I received my PhD in Clinical Medicine in 2013 from Imperial College London. Between 2013-2017, I worked at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2018 I worked at UCL in London before joining the MRC Center for Medical Mycology at first the University of Aberdeen and then the University of Exeter in August 2019.

My research uses high-throughput/next generation sequencing technologies to study the patterns of genomic, transcriptomic, and gene-regulatory variation between and within populations of microbial pathogens. I received my PhD in Clinical Medicine in 2013 from Imperial College London. Between 2013-2017, I worked at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2018 I worked at UCL in London before more recently joining the University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer in Bioinformatics. My current projects include studying the evolution of virulence in various human pathogens, including Cryptococcus gattii.

2012 Ph.D. Clinical Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

2008 M.Sc. Bioinformatics (Distinction), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

2007 B.Sc. (Hons) Cellular Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK