Dr Tom Laver

About me:

Tom Laver is a bioinformatician and geneticist specialising in analysis of DNA sequencing data. He received a BSc in Biology from the University of Bath in 2010. He then completed a bioinformatics PhD at the University of Exeter on computational metagenomics. Tom joined the monogenic diabetes group at the University of Exeter Medical School in 2015. He became a Lecturer in Diabetes in 2020 and Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics 2024.His research focusses on the analyses of next-generation DNA sequencing data to identify novel genetic aetiologies for congenital hyperinsulinism and monogenic diabetes, investigating variable penetrance and assessing gene-disease relationships.

Tom works in the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences and is a principle investigator in the Monogenic Diabetes reserach group (https://www.diabetesgenes.org/) and the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics (https://hyperinsulinismgenes.org/). 

Qualifications:

• 2021 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice & Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (University of Exeter)
• 2015 PhD in computational bacterial metagenomics (Biosciences, Univeristy of Exeter)
• 2010 BSc. Biology (University of Bath)