Thomas Adams
Postdoctoral Researcher at The James Hutton Institute
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Adams is a postdoctoral researcher with a decade of experience applying bioinformatics to plant–pathogen interactions, currently studying resistance to Potato Cyst Nematode at the James Hutton Institute. Trained with a PhD in Plant Pathology from the University of Reading and a Natural Sciences BA from Cambridge, he has worked across strawberry, wheat and potato systems and on pathogens from fungi and oomycetes to nematodes. He specialises in extracting insight from large, unevenly annotated datasets, building reusable tools and workflows that scale across projects. His work bridges field-relevant questions and computational rigour, informing efforts to improve food security through actionable understanding of host resistance. Colleagues value his ability to turn messy biological data into reproducible analyses that are readily adopted by other teams.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at University of ReadingBachelor of Arts - BA, Natural Sciences, 2.1, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Natural Sciences, 2.1 at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (25)
bioinformatics10
google-scholar9
nextflow9
genomics9
nf-core8
genomes8
singularity8
pipeline7
sequence5
logging5
assembler5
molecule5
r-package4
security-camera3
phylogenetics3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
harrisonlab/phytophthora_rubi
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:125 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Hutton-Potato-Genetics/nfHISS
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 8 reviews, 29 PRs in 7 months
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