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Name Jordan Price
Label Bioinformatician and Molecular Biologist
Summary I am currently a senior specialist in Plant Pathology department of NIAB, Cambridge, UK. My current work is focussed on functional and comparative genomics of fungi important for food, viticulture and agriculture.
Email jordan.price@niab.com
Website https://rj-price.github.io/

Education

  • 2008 - 2012
    PhD
    University of Portsmouth
    Developmental Biology
  • 2007 - 2008
    MSc (by research)
    Lancaster University
    Biomedical Science
  • 2004 - 2007
    BSc 2:1
    Lancaster University
    Biochemistry

Work

  • 2022 - Present
    Senior Specialist
    NIAB, Plant Pathology, Cambridge
    Junior group leader working on collaborative project with Quorn. Utilizing whole genome sequencing and variant analysis pipelines, together with CRISPR based deletion and base editing, and phenotypic characterization.
  • 2020 - 2022
    Specialist
    NIAB, Cambridge Crop Research, Cambridge
    Worked on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded ENSA project, using comparative genomics to investigate the evolutionary underpinnings of actinorhizal nitrogen fixing symbiosis.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Specialist
    NIAB, Genetics, Genomics and Breeding, East Malling
    Worked on the ENSA project, using comparative genomics to investigate the evolutionary underpinnings of actinorhizal nitrogen fixing symbiosis.
  • 2015 - 2019
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    University of Kent, School of Biosciences
    Explored the genetic and genomic modifications underpinning the pathogenicity of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
  • 2012 - 2015
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine
    Designed and performed high throughput multiplex TaqMan qPCR assays, Western blot optimisation and analysis, and computational analysis of expression microarray and DNA methylation data.

Skills

Reviewer
PLOS Genetics
Plant Pathology
PLOS ONE
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology
GFI Research Grants
Membership
Elected Member of Eukaryotic Division of the Microbiology Society
Royal Society of Biology
British Mycological Society
Microbiology Society
British Society for Plant Pathology