Dr Kevin Gori

  • Postdoctoral scientist
Dr Kevin Gori

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About

I took my Masters’ in Computational Biology at the University of York, and my PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, supervised jointly by Nick Goldman and Christophe Dessimoz.

In August 2016 I joined the Transmissible Cancer Group in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, headed by Elizabeth Murchison.

 

My background is in phylogenetics, a set of mathematical techniques used to infer the evolutionary relationships between organisms. In particular, my focus is on discordant evolution, in which evolutionary trees differ depending on the genomic region being analysed.

My current research is on the evolutionary and geographic history of recently discovered transmissible cancers.

 

Collaborators

  1. Alex Sampson

    Alex Sampson

    • Part II student and visiting student, 2016-2020
  2. Adrian Baez-Ortega

    Adrian Baez-Ortega

    • Royal Society University Research Fellow
  3. Dr Andrea Strakova

    Dr Andrea Strakova

    • Postdoctoral scientist
  4. Maire Ni Leathlobhair

    Maire Ni Leathlobhair

    • PhD student (2014-2018)
  5. Maximilian Stammnitz

    Maximilian Stammnitz

    • PhD student (2015-2020), Postdoc (2020-2022)
  6. Dr Tracy Wang

    Dr Tracy Wang

    • Lab manager / Project coordinator
  7. Elizabeth Murchison

    Elizabeth Murchison

    • Group leader
  8. Young Mi Kwon

    Young Mi Kwon

    • Former Master's student