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

• Major, P, Sendra, KM, Dean, P, Williams, TA, Watson, AK, Thwaites, DT, Embley, TM & Hirt, RP, 2019, ‘A new family of cell surface located purine transporters in Microsporidia and related fungal endoparasites’. eLife, vol 8.
• Coleman, GA, Pancost, RD & Williams, TA, 2019, ‘Investigating the Origins of Membrane Phospholipid Biosynthesis Genes Using Outgroup-Free Rooting’. Genome Biology and Evolution, vol 11., pp. 883-898

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