Ellen Cameron

Ellen is an ecologist interested in applying modern molecular techniques to characterise ecological community structures and species interactions. 

Currently, she is exploring the potential of using single-cell RNA sequencing to characterise multi-species assemblages found in symbiotic associations. In the Papatheodorou group, she will contribute to the development of single-cell RNAseq analysis pipelines for non-model organisms.

Prior to joining the Earlham Institute, Ellen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute using long-read metagenomics to characterise lichens and explore the evolution of algal and fungal symbionts.

Ellen completed a master's degree in molecular science at the Toronto Metropolitan University and a PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada where her research focused on microalgae and cyanobacteria.