Biography

George is  an IDeAL early career post-doctoral fellow at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. He utilises bioinformatics approaches in studies of virus evolution and transmission.His current project investigates the role of minority variants in virus evolution and in reconstructing virus transmission chains. George holds a Bachelors degree in Biomedical Science and Technology from Egerton University and a PhD from the Open University (UK) advised by Dr Peter Bull (University of Cambridge), Prof Kevin Marsh (Oxford University) and Dr Britta Urban (University of Liverpool). His  PhD thesis explored the extent of sequence and epitope diversity within a short region of the PfEMP1 molecule that is associated with characteristic expression patterns in severe and non-severe malaria cases. Before joining the programme, George trained at the MoMs malaria project in Tanzania and SBRI (now Center for Infectious Disease Research) in Dr Patrick Duffy’s lab and received courses in bioinformatics topics at the University of Washington George is interested in developing reproducible bioinformatics data processing workflows and is keen on open source software development.