Zoe Dyson
Co-Programme Director MSc Medical Microbiology at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZoe Dyson is an interdisciplinary microbial genomicist and educator with a decade of experience translating bacterial pathogen genomics into public health action. As Co-Programme Director for the MSc in Medical Microbiology and Deputy Director of LSHTM’s Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health, she blends computational skills from a computer science background with wet-lab microbiology to build surveillance platforms like TyphiNET and AMRnet. Her research focuses on the genetic epidemiology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in typhoidal Salmonella, contributing to large-scale genomic resources and practical genotyping tools used in global surveillance. An editor at mSystems and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie alumnus, she is as comfortable developing pipelines and visualization tools in Python/R as she is mentoring students and shaping curriculum. Notably, she couples hands-on culture collection and phage work from earlier roles with modern phylogenomics, giving her a rare end-to-end perspective on pathogen discovery, analysis, and policy-relevant dissemination.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCiLT), Higher Education, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (PGCiLT), Higher Education at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology at La Trobe University
English
Github Skills (14)
genomics10
assign10
genome10
vcf-files10
genomes10
bioinformatics9
amr6
pathogen5
dashboard5
infectious-diseases5
sequencing4
next-generation-sequencing4
r3
assembly2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zadyson/GenoParatyphi
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Detect AMR mutations in Salmonella Paratyphi A genomes based on VCF or BAM files (mapped to Paratyphi A AKU_12601 reference genome)
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bam-filessalmonellagenomegenomesreference-genome
typhoidgenomics/genotyphi
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Assign genotypes to Salmonella Typhi genomes based on VCF files (mapped to Typhi CT18 reference genome)
Contributions:6 releases, 59 commits, 22 PRs in 7 years 1 month
salmonellagenomegenomesreference-genomevcf-files
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