People

	Head Dr Silvia Paracchini Silvia is leading the development of the Bioinformatics Unit and is the PI on the Wellcome Trust ISSF award supporting our facility. Silvia is a human geneticist with a strong interest in functional genomics School of Medicine	sp58@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Deputy Dr Nathan Bailey Nathan studies genetics of social behaviour and rapid evolutionary change in insects. He is interested in methods that apply modern genomic techniques to organisms that lack highly-developed 'omic resources. School of Biology	nwb3@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Reader Prof. Matthew Holden Prior to joining the University of St Andrews, Matthew spent over a decade at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute annotating and analysing bacterial genomes. Matthew's research interests include pathogen evolution, the genetic basis of virulence and antibiotic resistance, and the clinical application of genome sequencing. School of Medicine	mtgh@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Senior bioinformatician Mr. Ramón Fallon Ramón is interested in development of new algorithms and new strategies to analyse the genomic data as well as in computer clusters administration and in parallel computation. School of Medicine	rf73@st-andrews.ac.uk
	Senior bioinformatician Dr. Joseph Ward Joe has come over from Dundee, where he has been the bioinformatician attached to the DNA sequencing centre for the last 4 years. He's come to work with Silvia Paracchini and Matthew Holden, initially on some hospital infection outbreak data. School of Medicine	jw279@st-andrews.ac.uk