Loizos Savva

John Innes Centre

Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics

• Finalised the development of the Snakemake-packaged MARPLE diagnostics pipeline for strain-level identification of wheat rust from field samples in remote locations, using data from MinION Nanopore sequencing devices.
• Developed the front-end user interface for interacting with the MARPLE pipeline, as well as adding metadata using a newly-developed barcoding system.
• Provided bioinformatics support in the Saunders’ Lab on research in wheat rust, working on NGS projects involving pathogen genomics and epigenetics.
• Collaborated with internal labs to identify susceptibility genes in wheat, to manage resistance to wheat blast.
• Delivered bioinformatics workshops on Linux and R, online and in-person, to people with varying educational backgrounds.
• Lead-authored one and co-authored three more papers (2 currently in review) on wheat pathogen genomics.

Cardiff University

Graduate Demonstrator

Demonstrated and tutored sessions in Computational, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry and Spectroscopy.

Emphasis Research Centre, University of Cyprus

Research Intern

Project: Detection of nicotine using HS-SPME-GC-MS and SERS.