Billy Quilty

Education

Imperial College London MSc Epidemiology candidate 2017/2018

• Holder of a School of Public Health Masters Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Dissertation title: The Effect of Low-density Plasmodium falciparum Infections in Mosquitos on Transmission to Humans

University of Reading BSc Biological Sciences, First Class Honours, July 2017

• Dissertation title: Isolation and Characterisation of Bacteriophage for Biocontrol of Pseudomonas syringae, Causative Agent of Canker in Prunus spp.

Skills

• Epidemiology: Hypothesis generation, data collection, study design, review of current literature, infectious and chronic disease biology, epidemic modelling, outbreak control intervention, contact-tracing, surveillance

• Statistical Analysis: Analysis and management of large datasets in R/Stata/Excel, hypothesis testing, advanced statistical methods, parameter estimation, Bayesian methods, interpretation of research findings

• Coordination and Communication: Team-building and leadership, professionalism, funding application, working in time-sensitive situations, organisation of a large project, presentation of findings to audiences of varying subject knowledge, report writing, data visualisation

Experience

University of Reading/NIAB East Malling Research Undergraduate Research Studentship, July–Sept 2016

• Isolation and Characterisation of Bacteriophage for Biocontrol of Pseudomonas syringae, Causative Agent of Canker in Prunus spp.
• Funding: British Society of Plant Pathology
• Supervisors: Prof. Rob Jackson, UoR, Dr. Robert Saville, NIAB EMR

University of Akureyri Arctic Microbial Ecology Field Course, July 2016

• Two-week collaborative international field trip
• Research project involving sampling and cultivating microbes for bioremediation of Artic oil spills