Tim Heupink
Tim is an evolutionary geneticist with an interest in Next Generation Sequencing and real-time evolutionary dynamics across space and time. He has worked on longitudinal DNA datasets from a wide variety of organisms, ranging from extinct birds to humans, and studied the processes that shaped their genetic diversity. He now applies these principles to study tuberculosis as part of the Center for Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He works on longitudinal data sets to study the evolutionary dynamics of MTB within individuals and populations. The aim of this research is to get a better understanding of MTB’s evolution in hyper-endemic settings and genetic response to different interventions.