Restoring the collapsed human genome

John Armour has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust on "Restoring the collapsed human genome". The Fellowship award is running for 24 months from May 1st 2013. The award funds teaching support, to help John to devote more of his own time to the primary research. The idea of the project is to develop methods and analyses that will enhance the long-range reconstruction of individual human genome sequences, an aspect of genome structure that is largely neglected by standard genome sequencing approaches. In parallel, as he has just stepped down from a five-year period as HoS, over the coming year John will have a break from senior administrative responsibilities.