Mark Fife PhD

Mark Fife is a complex-disease geneticist with extensive experience in complex trait analysis (QTL and association studies), candidate gene mapping and molecular genetics techniques in human and chickens. He has produced over 45 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in this area before becoming Genetics and Genomics group leader.

Mark’s skills and experience in analysis of complex genetic traits is highly applicable to the research conducted across The Pirbright Institute. His group’s research on genome-wide analysis of chicken host immunity has culminated in the identification and characterisation of important causal genes for important immune traits in chickens. He is now conducting research involved in human and animal vaccine production.