Research interests

  • Systems and synthetic biology
  • Computational intelligence and machine learning
  • Molecular biology of Bacillus subtilis

I am a researcher in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University  in the United Kingdom. I have a backgroud in both molecular biology and computing science, and am interested in the interface between the two. I am particularly interested in  the use of computational intelligence techniques to design synthetic genetic circuits. Our group has laboratory space in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, where our designs can be implemented in our favourite organism, Bacillus subtilis.


Selected publications

 Misirli, G., Pocock, M. Cockell, S. J., Lord, P., Dewar, J. M., Holstein, E., Wilkinson, D., Lydall, D., Hallinan, J. S. & Wipat, A. (2011). Customisable views on semantically integrated networks for systems biology. Bioinformatics 27(9): 1299 - 1306. 

Misirli, G., Hallinan, J. S., Yu, T., Lawson, J. R., Wimalaratne, S. M., Cooling, M. T. & Wipat, A. (2011). Model annotation for synthetic biology: Automated model to sequence conversion. Bioinformatics doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr048

Cooling, M. T., Rouilly, V., Misirli, G., Lawson, J., Yu, T., Hallinan, J. & Wipat, A. (2010). Standard virtual biological parts: a repository of modular modeling components for synthetic biology. Bioinformatics 26: 925 - 931. 

Hallinan, J., Misirli, G. & Wipat, A. (2010). Evolutionary computation for the design of a stochastic switch for synthetic genetic circuits. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010).

Complete publication list

Contact Me

Physical: Room 910, School of Computing Science, Claremont Tower, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 4RU.

Email: Jennifer.Hallinan@newcastle.ac.uk