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Anthony Underwood

Head of Bioinformatics

Broken String Biosciences

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Broken String Biosciences Ltd | Apr 2022 - Present

Head of Bioinformatics

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The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance | Oct 2021 - Apr 2022

Head of Translational and Operational Bioinformatics

Implementing reproducible bioinformatics pipelines for public health benefit using • CGPS software such as Microreact (https://microreact.org), Data-flo (https:// data-flo.io/) and Pathogenwatch (https://pathogen.watch/) • Nextflow (https://nextflow.io/) • Containerisation (Docker and Singularity) • Cloud deployment Leveraging these technologies to benefit public health laboratories and researchers tackle global problems such as SARS-CoV-2, Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria, respiratory disease etc. Ensuring that these technologies are available to all users independent of setting.
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The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance | Jul 2018 - Oct 2021

Bioinformatics Implementation Manager

Leading development and rollout of bioinformatics pipelines and software/tools for genomic surveillance in laboratories at four international sites (India, Colombia, Nigeria, The Philippines)

Inivata | Nov 2017 - Jul 2018

Lead Computational Scientist

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Public Health England | Jul 2014 - Nov 2017

Lead for Bioinformatics

Strategy development for bioinformatics in the microbiology services division of Public Health England. Management of a diverse team of staff including bioinformaticians, computer scientists and UNIX system administrators.

Public Health England | Apr 2002 - Oct 2017

Bioinformatician

Development and delivery of analytical software for pathogen molecular data, particularly that from whole genome sequencing

Public Health England | Apr 2002 - Apr 2013

Bioinformatician

Development of Bioinformaics tools to aid life scientists and medical staff in their jobs. In particular the focus is on research oriented applications and scientific database design. See http://www.hpa.org.uk/ProductsServices/InfectiousDiseases/ ServicesActivities/Bioinformatics/ Skills involved include 1) Bioinformatics analysis of genome data, particularly pathogens 2) Programming in Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, R, Perl, php, and Java. 3) Unix administration of Linux servers including software installation and maintenance. 4) A detailed working knowlege of Windows and Apple Macintosh computers including advanced troubleshooting. 5) Expert advice in molecular biology and Bioinformatics to Health Specialists

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool University | Aug 1995 - Mar 2002

Postdoctoral Researcher

Scientific Research into the molecular biology of the disease underlying elephantiasis and filariasis caused by parasitic worms.

My Education

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Postgraduate Certificate, BioinformaticsManchester University | 2010
Ph.D., Molecular Infectious DiseasesUniversity of Oxford | 1995
B.Sc., MicrobiologyBristol University | 1991

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