Amy Strange

Dr Amy Strange was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and a postdoctoral researcher in statistical genetics at the Wellcome Trust's Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. Her research, conducted in the laboratory of Professor Peter Donnelly, focuses on genetic susceptibility to common diseases including psoriasis and schizophrenia. She is also an Ambassador for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network and an editor at the Oxford University Biochemical Society's magazine Phenotype, and she has written for the Wellcome Trust Blog. She obtained her PhD from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's John Innes Centre, where she identified natural genetic variation responsible for different flowering times of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. This involved plant collecting in Sweden, and many hours counting leaves in greenhouses.