Gerry Tonkin-Hill

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Academic interests

My research focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational tools for the analysis of microbial genomes. Previously, I completed my PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge. My PhD project focused on investigating the within-host genetic diversity and transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and briefly SARS-CoV-2. Prior to this, I worked on Malaria investigating the major virulence factor PfEMP1 in Plasmodium falciparum .

Background

  • PhD (Mathematical Genomics), University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • MSc (Probability and Statistics), University of Melbourne
  • BSc (Applied Mathematics), University of Melbourne

Supervision

Co-supervision

  • Juri KuronenHigh-dimensional structure learning of Markov networks with applications in bacterial statistical genomics.

Positions

  • Visiting Researcher, Wellcome Sanger Institute

 

Selected publications

Tonkin-Hill, G. et al. Pneumococcal within-host diversity during colonization, transmission and treatment. Nat Microbiol 7 , 1791–1804 (2022)

Tonkin-Hill, G. et al. Patterns of within-host genetic diversity in SARS-CoV-2. Elife 10 , e66857 (2021)

Tonkin-Hill, G. et al. Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline. Genome Biol. 21 , 180 (2020)

Tonkin-Hill, G., Lees, JA, Bentley, SD, Frost, SDW & Corander, J. Fast hierarchical Bayesian analysis of population structure. Nucleic Acids Res. 47 , 5539–5549 (2019)

Tonkin-Hill, GQet al. The Plasmodium falciparum transcriptome in severe malaria reveals altered expression of genes involved in important processes including surface antigen-encoding var genes. PLoS Biol. 16 , e2004328 (2018)

Published Apr. 8, 2021 10:58 AM - Last modified Feb. 16, 2023 2:58 AM