Dan is a postdoctoral bioinformatician based in the Pillay lab (Division of Infection and Immunity, UCL), currently working with Harriet Gliddon and Professor Rachel McKendry at the LCN on design of a rapid diagnostic test for drug resistance in tuberculosis. His previous role involved designing and implementing a pipeline to assemble viral genomes and identify drug resistance mutations from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data for 20,000 clinical samples on the ICONIC and PANGEA projects (funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, respectively).

His research interests centre around public health genomics, using NGS data to facilitate more accurate surveillance of infectious disease outbreaks and generate more patient-centric diagnostic and prognostic tools for clinicians. His previous projects have been relatively diverse in nature, including: host and viral transcriptomics of chickenpox, characterisation of llama B-cell repertoires and differential expression / methylation analysis of canine transmissible venereal tumours (CTVT).