The lab is mostly interested in the epigenetics of ageing and cancer. Specifically cellular senescence, the HIRA/UBN1/CABIN1/ASF1a complex and various histone modifications. Tastes were varied within the lab so we did a bunch of other stuff too.
My role was bioinformatics which means I was strictly in silico. I specialised in Next Generation Sequencing and whole genome approaches. Most of my work centred around whole genome studies using ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, Bisulphite-seq and various microarrays. I tended to be involved in a number of projects concurrently.
I did my PhD while as part of the
MATCH project; which was a collaborative research project between the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. The general idea was to develop a research base for technologies which might support social and health care at home.
At Glasgow we had three main research themes; (i) requirements elicitation, (ii) multimodal interaction and (iii) configuration of dynamic systems.
My work within the project primarily focused on generic methods of choosing appropriate interaction techniques within a complex and/or evolving system (such as a typical ubicomp system). That's the third one from the list above.