Zamin Iqbal, Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK), will be part of the Visiting Speaker Program in December. 

When: Thursday December 4th
Time: 11.30am
Where: 16 Rainforest walk, Lecture Theatre S1, Monash University

Group leaders who would like to meet with Zam, please contact Galain Williams (galain.williams@monash.edu)

Prof Iqbal has a diverse background in both bioinformatics methods development and microbial evolutionary studies. He has had enormous impact on the research community by providing solutions to large-scale indexing and sequence analysis, including BItsliced Genomic Signature Index (BIGSI), REINDEER, Lexicmap, and more recently AllTheBacteria – a resource of >2 million uniformly assembled and searchable bacterial genomes representing all publicly available bacteria to August 2024. He has also made substantial contributions to the genetic understanding and diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), including the development of the resistance prediction tools Mykrobe, and as a senior investigator on the Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis International Consortium (CRyPTIC) research project. More recently, he has developed novel approaches to understanding plasmid evolution and transmission by applying algorithmic solutions that model genetic rearrangements (Pling).