Dr Kevin Gori

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.