I’m a scientist at the University of Dundee where I currently work on proteomics, doing the complex things that routine software can’t handle. Previous projects include the potato genome, phosphoproteomics in sleeping sickness, functional annotation (as part of the ELM project) and forays into protein crystallography and kinetics.
<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The potato genome sequence — well, almost</figcaption></figure>
Initially from a wet lab background (my PhD was structure function analysis on the blood coagulation proteases) I would describe myself as a bioinformatics toolmaker and educator. Fun toys that I use in teaching include Gigsaw (http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/gigsaw) which shows that sequence assembly can be done by nursery school kids as well as by undergrads.
<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Students hunting for mutations with Gigsaw</figcaption></figure>
Current educational interests include developing the bioinformatics components of our Life Sciences undergraduate and postgraduate training programs.