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Basics
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. |
jordan.price@niab.com | |
Website | https://rj-price.github.io/ |
Education
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2008 - 2012 -
2007 - 2008 -
2004 - 2007
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 |