Biography
Rachael graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2011 with a BSc in Biochemistry.
She then became a research assistant at the Sanger Institute, where she worked on large-scale functional genomics pipelines for the blood stages of Plasmodium knowlesi and falciparum.
In 2021, she earned an MSc in Applied Bioinformatics from Cranfield University, focusing on barcoded pooled assays related to the plasmodium resistome.
In 2024, she joined Richard Leggett's group at the Earlham Institute to investigate the application of Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology for the rapid characterization of preterm microbiota.