Welcome!
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Pedicord Lab, University of Cambridge, working at the intersection of computational metagenomics and gut-brain biology. My research programme centres on developing and deploying population-scale shotgun metagenomics pipelines — including reference database construction and rigorous benchmarking — to profile under-characterised components of the gut microbiome and link them to neurological and behavioural phenotypes.
I completed my PhD in 2024 at the Koide Lab, National Institute of Genetics, Japan, where I identified a gut bacterium with causal effects on animal domestication behaviour in mice. This work resulted in a patent (PCT/JP2024/018885) and a licensing agreement with Morinaga Milk Industry.
My expertise spans both wet lab (molecular biology, microbiology, mouse behaviour phenotyping) and large-scale dry lab analysis (metagenome assembly, genome binning, phylogenomics, HPC-scale pipeline development). I have generated bacterial, viral, and eukaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) and built specialised reference datasets to support microbiome research.
Developing reference databases and benchmarked pipelines for profiling fungal and other eukaryotic components of the gut microbiome from shotgun sequencing data.
Building reproducible, scalable Snakemake workflows for population-scale metagenomic analysis across tens of thousands of samples on HPC infrastructure.
Investigating how gut microbial communities — bacterial and beyond — influence neurological and behavioural phenotypes in human cohorts and mouse models.
Constructing and curating MAG catalogues from diverse host populations to expand reference databases for microbial ecology research.
Feel free to reach out for inquiries or collaborations: bbb27[at]cam.ac.uk
Keywords: metagenomics; eukaryotic metagenomics; gut microbiome; pipeline development; reference database construction; MAGs; phylogenomics; gut-brain axis; behavioural genetics; tameness; Limosilactobacillus reuteri