Chris Creevey
Theme Lead Sustaining Ecosystems And Biodiversity, at Queen's University Belfast
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Creevey is a computational biologist and professor leading research at Queen’s University Belfast, focused on how genomic variation shapes phenotypes and microbial ecosystems from bacteria to eukaryotes. He combines deep expertise in phylogenomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics with a track record of developing algorithms for detecting horizontal gene transfer and reconstructing evolutionary trees. As Theme Lead for Sustaining Ecosystems and Biodiversity and a co-founder of spin-out AMPLY Discovery, he translates fundamental research into applied biotech for health, nutrition and anti-infective discovery. His career spans EMBL and national research leadership roles, bringing together ecology, evolution and systems biology to tackle practical problems like ruminant microbiome function and methane mitigation. Notable beyond academia, he has built computational tools that underpin both academic publications and a commercial platform, reflecting a rare mix of software, ecology and entrepreneurial experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics at NUI MaynoothSt. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny
Github Skills (6)
partition10
fasta10
bioinformatics9
phylogenetics8
consensus5
raft4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisCreevey/clann
Jun 2016 - Feb 2021
Clann: constructing consensus trees and supertrees from multiple source trees
Contributions:6 releases, 65 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 9 months
raftconsensustrees
ChrisCreevey/clan_check
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Check trees for compatibility with defined groupings in unrooted trees - "The incontestable clan test"
Contributions:4 releases, 38 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 7 months
paralogsphylogenetics
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