I’m an Associate Fellow at Newcastle University and Visiting Scientist at Wellcome Sanger Institute. I have specialised in the fields of single-cell analysis, immunology and developmental biology.
You can navigate to the following pages for my:
Summary
I was born and raised in London and am a first-generation Jamaican migrant. I am grateful for the places my journey in academia has taken me so far.
For my postdoctoral research at Newcastle University’s Faculty of Medical Sciences, I have been awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Leading Edge Fellowship (2023) and was a finalist for the British Society for Immunology Early Career Researcher’s Award (2023).
My PhD research was published in Nature in September 2021, and contributed to the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) Initiative, which aims to create the world’s first comprehensive atlas of cells in the human body. For my doctorate, I was awarded the Newcastle University Faculty Medical Sciences Doctoral Thesis Prize (2022), and Honourable Mentions for the International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences (2021) and Doctoral Researcher’s Award in Natural and Life Sciences (2022).
I care deeply about equity in access to higher education, and have been involved in community building and voluntary scientific outreach work since the beginning of my academic journey. I have almost 10 years experience in the charity sector.
My research papers are listed on a separate page, and can also be found using my ORCID or Google Scholar profile.
Skill-set
Coding languages: Proficient in Python, R, and Linux/Unix. You can find examples of my recent code on GitHub
High performance computing clusters: batch submission of scripts, including use of shell script
Adobe Illustrator: preparation of figures for publication
Microsoft Office: preparation of word documents for publication and wrangling of data
A bit more about my journey into academia
I began my UG degree in Biological Sciences in 2014 at University College London (UCL). I enjoyed taught modules in bioinformatics. I spent my third year on an exchange programme at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia where I conducted an independent research project in mathematical modelling of antibiotic resistance under the supervision of Associate Professor Jan Engelstaedter.
Upon my return to UCL, I wrote a final year Master’s dissertation entitled: ‘Identifying plant genes of unknown function’. My dissertation was written under supervision of Professor Christophe Dessimoz and Dr Natasha Glover, whom I was fortunate enough to first practice object-oriented programming with at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland. I completed my undergraduate MSci Biological Sciences at University College London (UCL) in 2018, where I graduated with a first class honours.
I moved to Newcastle (UK) in 2018, where I began my PhD funded by the Barbour Foundation and under the supervision of Professor Muzlifah Haniffa. I completed my PhD in December 2021, and my PhD thesis title was: ‘Using single-cell multiomics to characterise haematopoiesis in human fetal bone marrow’.