Jacqueline is a PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked as a bioinformatician for a year in Dr. David Adams' Experimental Cancer Genetics group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Jacqueline obtained a BSc degree in Molecular Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) and carried out undergraduate-level research in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Stem Cells of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of USP, under the supervision of Dr. Marilene H. Lopes.
I am a geneticist with a background in plant-parasite genetics, single-cell DNA sequencing, plant genetics and evolution, and mathematics. I use the Linux command line fluently, and I also use R and Python. Most recently, I worked on a method to infer which parent genetic variants were inherited from using epigenetic imprinting.
My background is in Biological Sciences. I obtained my MSci at the University of Bristol. During my undergraduate degree, I became extremely interested in plant sciences and decided that I wanted to purse a PhD in plant/crop sciences.
Most of my work is devoted to genomically characterising Salmonella Paratyphi A with a particular focus on AMR, virulence factors, phylogeny and global distribution of the pathogen. I am also interested in azithromycin resistance within S. Paratyphi A with a focus on the increase of resistance in low-mid-income countries.
Although S. Paratyphi A is the main focus of my research, I am also interested in studying the human gut microbiome.
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Moyroud Group at SLCU studying natural variation and EvoDevo of petal bullseye patterns in Hibiscus using a combination of genetics, genomics and field work.
