Jo Dicks

Biography

Following degrees in Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Biology at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford, Jo Dicks began her research career in 1996 at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich. She led a research group investigating a broad range of computational problems in plant genetics and genomics, from plant genetic mapping to comparative genomics and phylogenetics. While at JIC, she began a long collaboration with Ian Roberts at the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC). In 2013, She moved to the Quadram Institute (QI) to lead the NCYC yeast genomes project. This data-rich project has opened up a huge range of projects encompassing the fields of industrial biotechnology, genome evolution and health.

Research Interest

Developing Genome Wide Association Studies to enable the detailed examination of yeast bioindustrial traits and pathogenicity factors, and the detection and analysis of sequence and copy number variation within the yeast ribosomal DNA, underpinning further studies on the significance and function of this ubiquitous genomic region