I have recently joined WIMR as a Principal Research Scientist to develop research capacity in the areas of bioinformatics and microbial genomics. I am looking at how multi-drug resistant clinical pathogens evolve (niche adaptation, antibiotic resistance) and share information to spread faster. I am also interested in how bioinformatics can fast-track the design of innovative treatment approaches and as such, I have been managing the bioinformatics component of the bacteriophage therapy program developed at WIMR. Finally, I am interested in scientific storytelling and new approaches to better visualise genomic data, and was involved in the development of widely-used bioinformatics software (BRIG, Easyfig, SeqFindr, and Contiguity).