Dr Alannah King
Bioinformatician
About Me
I started with the GPS team in December 2023, shortly after completing my PhD. Since then, I’ve been involved in a wide variety of research projects including specific analyses of the pneumococcal populations in China and the Netherlands, comparisons of the different methods used to define pneumococcal lineages, and deep dives into certain pneumococcal serotypes. I also help to write software to better analyse pneumococal genomes.
I did my PhD in the lab of Edmund Kunji at the MRC MBU, developing novel software to analyse transport proteins using a generalised framework of pseudosymmetry. I also provided bioinformatic support to other lab members and external collaborators.