Known for ARTEMIS | Name Julian Parkhill | |
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Born Julian Parkhill
September 23, 1964 (age 59)
Leigh-on-Sea ( 1964-09-23 ) Institutions University of Birmingham
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Thesis Regulation of transcription of the mercury resistance operon of Tn501 (1991) Notable awards FMedSci (2009)
FAAM (2012)
FRS (2014) Alma mater University of Birmingham, University of Bristol Fields Genomics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Evolution, Infection Institution University of Birmingham, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | ||
Julian Parkhill (born 1964) FRS is a Head of Pathogen Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and an Honorary Professor of Microbial Genomics at the University of Cambridge.
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Education
Parkhill was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, the University of Birmingham and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research into the regulation of transcription of the mercury resistance operon.
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. Research in the Parkill Laboratory has been funded the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC).
Awards and honours
Parkhill was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (FAAM) in 2012.
Parkhill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014, his certificate of election reads: