Edmund Ling

Research

My research interests are in metagenomics and organismal genomics. I also have interests in evolutionary and population genomics. During doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, I investigated the genetics of human susceptibility to tuberculosis and malaria.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences,University of Queensland, Australia, working on bioinformatics and metagenomics.

More specifically, I am interested in:

• Identification and characterisation of repetitive elements in genomes

• Phylogeny and evolution of transposable elements in the Brassicaceae

• Coral metagenomics

• Canola-associated soil metagenomics

• Host-pathogen co-evolution in blackleg disease (a fungal disease of canola and other land crops)

• Host-pathogen co-evolution in tuberculosis

• The genomics of longevity in Teleosts

Publications

Books

• Edmund Y S Ling, 2009. Host genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis and malaria in Africa. Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany.
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/genetic-susceptibility-tuberculosis-malaria-Africa/dp/3639153103/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262654947&sr=8-1

Journal articles

• Edmund Y S Ling, Adrian V S Hill et al., 2009. No evidence of MCP1 and TICAM2 association with tuberculosis in The Gambia. In prep.

• Edmund Y S Ling, Adrian V S Hill et al., 2009. The pyruvate kinase (liver and red blood cell), B and T lymphocyte attenuator, and TIR domain-containing adaptor molecule 2 genes, and association with malaria in Gambians. In prep.

• Edmund Y S Ling, Chris Tyler-Smith, Adrian V S Hill et al., 2009. Chromosome Y and mitochondrial DNA population genetics of humans in West Africa. In prep.

• Chiea C. Khor, Stephen J. Chapman, Fredrik O Vannberg, Aisling Dunne, Caroline Murphy, Edmund Y Ling, Luke A J O’Neill, Adrian V. S. Hill et al, 2007. A Mal functional variant is associated with protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, bacteremia, malaria and tuberculosis. Nat Genet 39:523-528.

• Zerjal, T, A Pandya, K Thangaraj, EYS Ling, J Kearley, S Bertoneri, S Paracchini, L Singh, C Tyler-Smith, 2007. Y-chromosomal insights into the genetic impact of the caste system in India. Hum Genet 121:137-144.

• Nasidze I, Ling EYS, Quinque D, Dupanloup I, Cordaux R, Rychkov S, Naumova O, Zhukova O, Sarraf-Zadegan N, Naderi GA, Asgary S, Sardas S, Farhud DD, Sarkisian T, Asadov C, Kerimov A, Stoneking M, 2004. Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome variation in the Caucasus. Ann Hum Genet 68:205-221.

• Jamieson, BGM, S Tillier, A Tillier, J-L Justine, E Ling, S James, K McDonald, A Hugall, 2002. Phylogeny of the Megascolecidae and Crassiclitellata (Annelida, Oligochaeta): combined versus partitioned analysis using nuclear (28S) and mitochondrial (12S, 16S) rDNA. Zoosystema 24(4):707.

Conference papers

• Edmund Y S Ling. The HapMap and candidate gene association studies in West Africa. The 8th International Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis, Hong Kong, SAR, China. 14–16 September 2006.

• Edmund Y S Ling. Patterns of Y chromosome evolution in the TBGENENV case-control study of Tuberculosis in West Africa. 11th International Congress of Human Genetics, Brisbane, Australia. 6-10 August 2006.

Others

• Ling, EYS, 1995. Mitochondrial DNA systematics of the Megascolecidae (Oligochaeta). Unpublished BSc (Hons) thesis.

Academic qualifications

• 2008 Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.

• 1995 Bachelor of Science, Postgraduate Honours (First Class), Zoology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

• 1993 Bachelor of Science, Zoology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.