Julian Parkhill

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Julian Parkhill
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Julian Parkhill in 2015
Born Julian Parkhill
(1964-09-23) September 23, 1964 (age 59)[1]
Leigh-on-Sea[1]
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Thesis Regulation of transcription of the mercury resistance operon of Tn501 (1991)
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Website
www.sanger.ac.uk/people/directory/parkhill-julian

Julian Parkhill (born 1964)[1] FRS[10] is a Head of Pathogen Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute[11][12][13][14][2][15][16] and an Honorary Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Cambridge.[17]

Education

Parkhill was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys,[1] the University of Birmingham and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a PhD in 1991[18] for research into bacterial resistance to mercury and copper.[3][4][19]

Research

Parkhill uses high throughput sequencing and phenotyping to study pathogen diversity and variation, how they affect virulence and transmission, and what they tell us about the evolution of pathogenicity and host–pathogen interaction.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Research in the Parkill Laboratory has been funded the Wellcome Trust, the BBSRC.[33] and the Medical Research Council (MRC).[34]

Awards and honours

Parkhill was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009,[8] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (FAAM) in 2012. <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Dr. Julian Parkhill is currently Head of Pathogen Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Over the last decade or so, his group has analysed the genomes of many bacteria of fundamental importance for human health, including the causative agents of tuberculosis, plague, typhoid fever, whooping cough, leprosy, botulism, diphtheria and meningitis, as well as nosocomial pathogens such as Clostridium difficile and MRSA, and food-borne pathogens such as Campylobacter jejuni, Salmonella Typhimurium and Yersinia enterocolitica. Their current research focuses on the application of high-throughput sequencing techniques to microbiology. They are currently sequencing very large collections of bacterial isolates with broad geographic and temporal spreads, linking genomic variation to epidemiology, acquisition of drug resistance and recent evolution. In addition, they are working with local and national clinical microbiology groups to build the foundations for the transfer of microbial sequencing to clinical and public health investigations. They are also applying sequencing technologies to phenotypic investigations, particularly saturation transposon mutagenesis, transcriptomics and high-throughput phenotyping. They collaborate widely, particularly with groups in developing countries where infectious diseases are endemic.[9]

Parkhill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014,[35] his certificate of election reads: <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />

Julian Parkhill has played a major role in determining the reference genome sequences of many key bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Yersinia pestis and Salmonella typhi. As well as providing complete catalogues of the arsenal of genes carried by each bacterium, Parkhill's work has led to important insights into how bacterial genomes evolve and the effect of variation within supposedly homogeneous bacterial populations. In parallel, tools to understand and visualise genomic data have been developed, and freely disseminated worldwide. Over a decade, Parkhill has been at the forefront of bacterial genomics, most recently using new high throughput sequencing technologies to explore evolution and transmission in bacterial pathogens, and enable the clinical use of these approaches.[10]

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Julian Parkhill's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Professor Julian Parkhill FRS FMedSci
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Julian Parkhill AAM Fellow
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  13. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  14. ↑ Julian Parkhill's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  15. ↑ Julian Parkhill's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  16. ↑ Professor Julian Parkhill visits the Wellcome Collection in London to unravel the Science behind the genome on YouTube
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  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. open access publication - free to read
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