Julie Callanan

I'm a PhD student, part of Professor Colin Hill's phage lab in the APC Microbiome Ireland. During my penultimate undergraduate year, I was lucky enough to do an 8-week summer studentship in this lab, where my interest in these entities began. Since then my research has progressed to studying the RNA phage consortium of the phage population as they remain understudied in many ecosystems. This particular research was carried out with Dr Stephen Stockdale, a post-doctoral researcher in our lab. In order to verify the presence/absence of ssRNA phages from samples, we developed a method to detect these entities.