Anil ( Neil ) Wipat

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Brief Biography

Anil Wipat gained a first degree in a Applied Biology from John Moores University. He returned to Liverpool following a year in the BioElectronics group at Cranfield Biotechnology Institute and completed a PhD in Molecular Microbiology.

He then spent a year in industry working firstly as a Software Engineer and subsequently as a Research and Development Scientist. In 1990 he joined Newcastle University as postdoctoral researcher studying firstly the regulation of alpha toxin in Gram Positive bacteria before working on research projects aimed at sequencing and functional analysis of the genome of the Gram positive bacteria Bacillus subtilis. In 1995 he was appointed as temporary lecturer in Microbial Genomics and spent a further 4 years within the Microbiology Department at Newcastle. In 2000, Anil gained a Masters with distinction in Computing Science from Newcastle, with a placement at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. After returning to Newcastle, he accepted a post as a Bioinformatics research fellow in the Faculty of Agriculture.

He joined the School of Computing Science in 2001 as a Lecturer in Bioinformatics. Anil is the degree programme director for the recently established MRes in Bioinformatics at Newcastle University.

Publications

A list of publications by Anil Wipat is available.

Research Groups

Anil is a member of the [ Data-Intensive Systems Research ] research group(s)

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