Dr William Rooney

Research Associate (Virology)

CVR Genomics, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G61 1QH

Biography

I joined CVR Genomics as a Research Associate in 2023 and I am the technical lead in transcriptomic technologies. Previously, I worked as a Product Development Scientist at BioClavis Ltd., a startup biotechnology company that harnessed proprietary Next Generation Sequencing-based technology to develop precision diagnostics tests. I was the product development lead on a number of internal projects and project manager on a blood biopsy grant funded by UKRI. I have a doctorate in Plant Science at the University of Glasgow, which focussed on genetically modifying crops to make them more resistant to bacterial plant pathogens. My PhD research was patented by the University of Glasgow.

Research interests

My current research interests are in the development of spatial and single cell transcriptomic methodologies. I’m particularly interested in utilising the GeoMx (NanoString), Visium (10X Genomics) and the Chromium (10X Genomics) technologies.

Publications

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2021

Chai, R., Rooney, W. M. , Milner, J. J. and Walker, D. (2021) Challenges of using protein antibiotics for pathogen control. Pest Management Science, 77(9), pp. 3836-3840. (doi: 10.1002/ps.6312) (PMID:33527621)

Rooney, W. , Laird, J., Chowdhury, M., MacIntosh, C., Deng, X., McBride, P. and Milner, J. (2021) Pseudomonas syringae seed infections. [Protocols]

2020

Rooney, W. M. , Chai, R., Milner, J. L. and Walker, D. (2020) Bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria: plantibiotics of the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 575981. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575981) (PMCID:PMC7530242)

Rooney, W. M. , Grinter, R. W., Correia, A., Walker, D. C. and Milner, J. J. (2020) Engineering bacteriocin-mediated resistance against the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(5), pp. 1296-1306. (doi: 10.1111/pbi.13294) (PMID:31705720) (PMCID:PMC7152609)

2019

The University Court Of The University of Glasgow (2019) Bacterial pathogen derived resistance in plants. .

Rooney, W. M. , Wojnowska, M. and Walker, D. (2019) Draft genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogenic bacterium Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum strain LMG 2410. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(31), e00614-19. (doi: 10.1128/MRA.00614-19) (PMID:31371540) (PMCID:PMC6675988)

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