Claire Walden

Research email: c.walden.1@research.gla.ac.uk

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0002-9465-6811

Research title: Comparative study of tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses using AI-powered text mining

Research Summary

Currently I am in the early stages of a PhD project studying tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses with the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Dr Maxwell Farrell. This project aims to apply Large Language Models to study the factors that allow viruses of companion animals to evolve from monotropic to pantropic infectious phenotypes. In addition, we are exploring the potential for the production of a veterinary research database which performs real-time text mining to produce networks of virus diagnostic and evolutionary associations.

Conferences

University of Glasgow Computational Biology Conference 2025

 

Teaching

Demonstrator on:

- Omic Data Analysis and Visualisation, using R, for Biologists BIOL5254
- Data Exploration and Interpretation for Bioinformatics BIOL5379