Liana is a PhD student based at Public Health England; her project is part of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic infections, a collaboration between Public Health England and the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on investigating the application of metagenomic sequencing methods to viral clinical samples. Liana is interested
Biography
Liana is a PhD student based at Public Health England; her project is part of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic infections, a collaboration between Public Health England and the University of Liverpool. Her work focuses on investigating the application of metagenomic sequencing methods to viral clinical samples. Liana is interested in field sequencing, and utilised the MinION for metagenomic sequencing in Nigeria during the recent Lassa fever outbreak.