Dr William Rooney

  • Research Associate (Virology)

email: Will.Rooney@glasgow.ac.uk

CVR Genomics, Sir Michael Stoker Building, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G61 1QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374

Biography

I joined CVR Genomics as a Research Associate in 2023 and I am the technical lead in transcriptomic technologies. Previously, I worked as a Product Development Scientist at BioClavis Ltd., a startup biotechnology company that harnessed proprietary Next Generation Sequencing-based technology to develop precision diagnostics tests. I was the product development lead on a number of internal projects and project manager on a blood biopsy grant funded by UKRI. I have a doctorate in Plant Science at the University of Glasgow, which focussed on genetically modifying crops to make them more resistant to bacterial plant pathogens. My PhD research was patented by the University of Glasgow.

 

Research interests

My current research interests are in the development of spatial and single cell transcriptomic methodologies. I’m particularly interested in utilising the GeoMx (NanoString), Visium (10X Genomics) and the Chromium (10X Genomics) technologies.

Publications

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Number of items: 6.

2021

Chai, Ray, Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Milner, Joel J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2021) Challenges of using protein antibiotics for pathogen control. Pest Management Science, 77(9), pp. 3836-3840. (doi: 10.1002/ps.6312) (PMID:33527621)

Rooney, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Laird, Janet, Chowdhury, Mechna, MacIntosh, Catriona, Deng, Xiaoyi, McBride, Phoebe and Milner, Joel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 (2021) Pseudomonas syringae seed infections. [Protocols]

2020

Rooney, William M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Chai, Ray, Milner, Joel L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2020) Bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria: plantibiotics of the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 575981. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575981) (PMCID:PMC7530242)

Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Grinter, Rhys W., Correia, Annapaula, Walker, Daniel C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 and Milner, Joel J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 (2020) Engineering bacteriocin-mediated resistance against the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(5), pp. 1296-1306. (doi: 10.1111/pbi.13294) (PMID:31705720) (PMCID:PMC7152609)

2019

The University Court Of The University of Glasgow (2019) Bacterial pathogen derived resistance in plants. .

Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Wojnowska, Marta and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2019) Draft genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogenic bacterium Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum strain LMG 2410. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(31), e00614-19. (doi: 10.1128/MRA.00614-19) (PMID:31371540) (PMCID:PMC6675988)

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Articles

Chai, Ray, Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Milner, Joel J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2021) Challenges of using protein antibiotics for pathogen control. Pest Management Science, 77(9), pp. 3836-3840. (doi: 10.1002/ps.6312) (PMID:33527621)

Rooney, William M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Chai, Ray, Milner, Joel L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2020) Bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacteria: plantibiotics of the future. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 575981. (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.575981) (PMCID:PMC7530242)

Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Grinter, Rhys W., Correia, Annapaula, Walker, Daniel C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 and Milner, Joel J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 (2020) Engineering bacteriocin-mediated resistance against the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18(5), pp. 1296-1306. (doi: 10.1111/pbi.13294) (PMID:31705720) (PMCID:PMC7152609)

Rooney, William M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Wojnowska, Marta and Walker, Daniel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4206-2942 (2019) Draft genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogenic bacterium Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum strain LMG 2410. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(31), e00614-19. (doi: 10.1128/MRA.00614-19) (PMID:31371540) (PMCID:PMC6675988)

Protocols

Rooney, William ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1623-8374, Laird, Janet, Chowdhury, Mechna, MacIntosh, Catriona, Deng, Xiaoyi, McBride, Phoebe and Milner, Joel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-4295 (2021) Pseudomonas syringae seed infections. [Protocols]

Patents

The University Court Of The University of Glasgow (2019) Bacterial pathogen derived resistance in plants. .

This list was generated on Sat Jun 14 14:26:44 2025 BST.