Prof Ian Goodhead

School of Science, Engineering & Environment

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Contact Details

Room G32 - Peel Building
University of Salford
M5 4WT

Current positions

Associate Dean Research & Innovation

Biography

Ian is Professor in Microbial Genomics. His research uses multi-omic strategies to better understand microbial symbiosis and pathogenesis, host/microbe interactions and bacterial genome evolution. Throughout his career Ian has developed and adopted DNA sequencing technologies and applications across multiple disciplines and in both the wet-lab and computational biology settings, but mainly focused on infectious diseases. He maintains interests in DNA sequencing capacity building in low-middle income settings to support studies including emerging and neglected tropical diseases and vector-borne disease. He has helped attract over £2m in research funding from funders such as Wellcome, NERC, BBSRC, the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Areas of Research

Genomics. Next generation sequencing. Bioinformatics. Microbiomes. Neglected Tropical Disease. Host-microbe interaction. Genome evolution.

Areas of Supervision

Microbial Genomics

Teaching

Genomics. Microbiology. Bioinformatics.

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications
  • PhD

    2007 - 2011