Fiona Newberry
Postgraduate Student
Department of Bioscience
Quadram Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Fiona Newberry attained a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Swansea University in 2014. Fiona Newberry then pursued an MSc in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. My research project focused on Brugia malayi drug discovery and utilized proteomic techniques. Here Fiona Newberry became interested in ‘omics, bioinformatics and host-pathogen interaction. Fiona Newberry started by PhD in 2016, entitled ‘The role of the enteric virome in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis’, funded by the Invest in ME charity. The aim of this study is to examine the intestinal virome of CFS/ME patients in relation to microbiome alteration and disease pathogenesis. This will involve refinement of current viral extraction techniques and development of a bioinformatic pipeline for data analysis.
Research Interest
Bioinformatics, host-pathogen interactions, phage-bacteria interactions, ‘omics and intestinal microbiome.
