Ben Ferneyhough

Employment

• The Metagenomic Testing Company Ltd Laboratory Manager
  2027 - Present
• Systems Biology Laboratory UK cic Laboratory Manager
  2006 - 2026
• Ribostem Ltd Principal Investigator
  2004 - 2006
• Oxford Brookes University Physiology Technician/Demonstrator
  1993 - 2004

Education

• Oxford Brookes University PhD
  1996 - 2000
• Nottingham Trent University BSc (Hons) Applied Biology
  1988 - 1992

Projects & Funding

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Publications (9)

• A comparison of two culture and three sequencing methods for detection of the urobiome
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.10.28.762191
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• A highly accurate nanopore-based sequencing workflow for culture and PCR-free microbial metagenomic profiling of urogenital samples.
  BMC urology 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s12894-025-01723-9
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• Comparison of T-cell receptor diversity of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis versus controls.
  BMC research notes 2024 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-023-06616-4
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• Hexapeptides from mammalian inhibitory hormone hunt activate and inactivate nematode reproduction.
  PloS one 2022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278049
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• Mysterious inhibitory cell regulator investigated and found likely to be secretogranin II related.
  PeerJ 2017 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3833
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• Violation of the 12/23 rule of genomic V(D)J recombination is common in lymphocytes.
  Genome research 2014 DOI: 10.1101/gr.179770.114
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• Preparation of high-quality next-generation sequencing libraries from picogram quantities of target DNA.
  Nick Parkinson, Siarhei Maslau, Ben Ferneyhough +6 more
  Genome research 2011 DOI: 10.1101/gr.124016.111
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• Behavioral development and olfactory learning in the honeybee (Apis mellifera).
  Developmental psychobiology 1999 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199901)34:1<21::aid-dev4>3.0.co;2-k
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• The effects of age on olfactory learning and memory in the honey bee Apis mellifera.
  Neuroreport 1997 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199702100-00042
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