Ms Everatt, Josie

Josie Everatt is a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM) at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. Prior to working at the CRDM she completed an MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh (funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission), during which she worked on a tool to simulate a thermodynamic model of RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei. She also holds a BSc (Hons) in Genetics and BSc in Molecular Biology from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Everatt has a wide range of interests within the field of bioinformatics, especially within genetics and genomics. She also enjoys coming up with new ways to visualise data, and developing scripts and pipelines to help streamline workflows. Her current focus is genomic surveillance and sequencing data analysis of respiratory pathogens, primarily SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory syncytial virus. She has co-authored several papers on SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals.