Jo Dicks

Jo Dicks has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham and an MSc in Applied Statistics and a DPhil in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford. Jo moved to Norwich in 1996, where she established a bioinformatics group at the John Innes Centre. Soon afterwards she began collaborating with researchers at UEA's School of Computing Sciences. This collaboration, now spanning over 25 years, has encompassed research into a range of compelling problems in evolutionary genetics and genomics, from phylogenetics to machine learning in bacterial genomes. It has continued during Jo's moves to the Quadram Institute in 2013 and more recently to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in 2018. Today, Jo leads the bioinformatics team within UKHSA's Culture Collections department. Her team focuses on developing computational approaches and software tools to further enhance the irreplaceable biological materials maintained within UKHSA's microbial collections.    

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