People

Andy Bretherick

PhD Student

Andy completed his PhD in 2019, co-supervised by Chris Haley and Chris Ponting. He used protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) and Mendelian randomisation to identify proteins on causal pathways to disease.( PLoS Genetics 2020, Nature 2020, Nature 2022, Nature 2023 ) He also recoded our physiological model of oxygen delvery.

He left to lead his own research group at the Institute for Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, and to work as a consultant in pain medicine.

Bo Wang

PhD Student

Bo completed a PhD, jointly supervised by Michael Gutmann, Ross Fitzgerald and David Dockrell, in 2022. Before joining us, Bo got his distinction MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh in 2018 after completed undergraduate training in software engineering with a first class honours degree in 2017 from University College Dublin. He completed a systematic evaluation of the MAIC algorithm, showing that it performs better than other aggregation methods in most circumstances (Nature 2020, Bioinformatics 2022).

Lucile Neyton

PhD Student

Lucile completed an MSc in bioinformatics in 2016 and did a PhD with us on the MRC Doctoral Training Scheme in Precision Medicine, jointly supervised by Damian Mole. Her work demonstrated that the “hyper-/hypo-inflammatory” phenotypes in ARDS are also found in patients who do not have ARDS, and who are not critically ill, by finding the same stratification signals in pancreatitis. After a short period as a postdoc in the lab, we helped her to find a position in an outstanding research group at UCSF.

Andru Tomoiu

Postdoctoral research fellow

Andru was the first postdoc in the lab, working on influenza infection and functional genomics in macrophages for 10 months in 2013 (Nature, 2014, J Virol, 2020)

During his time in the lab Andru decided that, after 10 years of work in laboratory science and virology, he wanted to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. He was accepted into medical school, and qualified in medicine in 2017. He is now working as a primary care doctor in his native Quebec.

Tim Regan

Postdoctoral research fellow

With a strong foundation in innate immune-mediated inflammation regulation from his PhD, Tim joined the Roslin Institute in 2014, where he cultivated expertise in bioinformatics and network graphing. His research journey led him through macrophage transcriptomics and honey bee metagenomics, eventually culminating in Genome-scale CRISPR Knock-Out (GeCKO) screening to explore host susceptibility/resistance genes involved in human, chickens and pigs.

Tim shifted his focus to work on the potential of bivalves as food sources for humans. In 2023, he was awarded a Career Track Fellowship at Roslin, and now leads an independent research group dedicated to unravelling the complexities of immune regulation in aquaculture invertebrates.