Dr. Tim Downing is a lecturer in genomics at DCU's School of Biotechnology. His Infection Genomics research group investigates the evolutionary history, present-day epidemiology and future threats associated with bacterial and parasitic drug resistance using genomics, computational models and population genetics. He is chairperson of the Genetics & Cell Biology (GCB) degree, and is a member of the ARC-SYM computational science research centre.