Daniel Barker
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 7812
- Email: Daniel.Barker@ed.ac.uk
Address
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Rm. 140B, Ashworth building
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Background
Reader.
2025+. Affiliate, Edinburgh Futures Institute.
2020+. Academic Lead for Public Engagement in the School of Biological Sciences.
2019-2021. MSc Bioinformatics Programme Director.
2018+. Reader in Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh.
2016-2018. Lecturer in Bioinformatics, University of Edinburgh.
2010-2015. Lecturer in Biology, University of St Andrews.
2005-2010. Research Councils UK Academic Fellow in Evolutionary and Functional Genomics, University of St Andrews.
2002-2005. Research Fellow, University of Reading.
2001-2002. Developer, Ensembl project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
1999-2001. Software Engineer and Software Engineer II, Analog Devices Inc.
Postgraduate teaching
Introduction to Bioinformatics (PGBI11137). Course Organiser.
Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics (PGBI11115). Course Organiser.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Chenxi Zhang.
Research summary
Bioinformatics education, phylogeny, comparative genomics, philosophy of science.
4273pi Bioinformatics Education Project. https://4273pi.org
LVB - Reconstructing Evolution with Parsimony and Simulated Annealing. https://lvb.bio.ed.ac.uk