Conor Meehan
Principal Scientist (Epidemiology) at UK Health Security Agency
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolConor Meehan is a Principal Scientist in epidemiology and Associate Professor of Microbial Bioinformatics with 11 years of experience applying computational genomics and phylogenetics to pathogen evolution, transmission and drug resistance. He leads metagenomics surveillance work at the UK Health Security Agency and serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Microbial Genomics, bridging academic research and public health practice. His expertise spans whole-genome assembly, Bayesian and maximum-likelihood phylogenetics, phylodynamics, microbiomes and lateral gene transfer, with a long-standing focus on mycobacteria and HIV/STIs. Conor’s career combines hands-on bioinformatics teaching and course leadership with field-facing pathogen surveillance, and his PhD work on HIV tropism underpinned later translational studies linked to drug trial datasets. Colleagues know him for turning complex evolutionary models into actionable insights for surveillance and outbreak investigation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Molecular Evolution, Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPhD, HIV host cell entry, PhD, HIV host cell entry at University of GalwayBsc (1st class honour), Genetics and Bioinformatics, Bsc (1st class honour), Genetics and Bioinformatics at Maynooth UniversityFellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at University of Bradford
Github Skills (41)
bacteria10
bam9
genomes9
ncbi9
genome9
microbial-genomics9
bioinformatics9
genome-annotation9
genomics9
taxonomy7
rapid7
pathogen7
dna-sequences7
zap6
profiling5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
conmeehan/conmeehan.github.io
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
💎 🐳 A super customizable Jekyll theme for personal site, team site, blog, project, documentation, etc.
Contributions:233 pushes in 5 years 2 months
blog-siteblog-projectcustomizablejekylljekyll-theme
conmeehan/pathophy
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pathogenbioinformaticsphylogenetics
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