Dr Tom Williams

Research summary

I'm a computational evolutionary biologist. Work in my group uses computational methods (mostly phylogenetics and bioinformatics) to study how molecules, genomes and microbes evolve, and to learn about the ...

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Biography

I obtained a B.A. in Genetics (2007) and a Ph.D. in molecular evolution (2010) from Trinity College Dublin. My Ph.D. work with Mario Fares focused on the ...

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Memberships

School of Biological Sciences

Research groups

• Evolutionary Biology

Latest publications

• Isner, J-C, Olteanu, V-A, Hetherington, AJ, Coupel-Ledru, A, Sun, P, Pridgeon, A, Jones, G, Oates, M, Williams, T, Maathuis, FJ, Kift, R, Webb, A, Gough, J, Franklin, K & Hetherington, A, 2019, ‘Short and long term effects of UV-A on Arabidopsis are mediated by a novel cGMP phosphodiesterase’. Current Biology.
• Dombrowski, N, Lee, J-H, Williams, T, Offre, P & Spang, A, 2019, ‘Genomic diversity, lifestyles and evolutionary origins of DPANN archaea’. FEMS Microbiology Letters, vol 366.

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