Ryan Cook

I am a postdoctoral research scientist at Quadram Institute Bioscience (Norwich, UK) with an interest in all things phage.

My research career started at the University of Nottingham where I completed a Microbiology BSc in 2018. Subsequently, I stayed at Nottingham for a PhD under the supervision of Michael Jones and Andrew Millard (University of Leicester). During this time, I explored the current extent of bacteriophage genomics, optimised approaches for viral metagenomics (or “viromics”), and characterised viral communities within the dairy farm environment.

I joined the Quadram in November 2022 and am currently studying viral communities within the human gut, with the aim to elucidate interactions between bacteriophages and mammalian tissues.