Julianna Piat

Biography

Dr Piat is Teaching Fellow in Bioscience at the School of Life Sciences. They obtained their Bachelor's in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford (Magdalen College), before completing a DPhil in molecular plant pathology at the same university. Their thesis title is "Investigating temperature effects on bacterial infections of common bean". For this project, she was co-supervised by Professor Gail Preston, Dr Nick Kruger (University of Oxford) and Dr Leighton Pritchard (University of Strathclyde). She has a passion for teaching, bioinformatics, plant pathology and bacterial genomics.