Patrick J. Biggs is a Professor in Genomics and Computational Biology at Massey University. He completed a B.Sc. in Applied Biochemistry at the Brunal University of London and a Ph.D. in Human Cancer Genetics at the University of London. Before joining Massey University, he worked at the Baylor College of Medicine as a research associate in 1998–2001 and a Bioinformatics Team Leader at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2001–2007. He then worked as a senior research fellow at the current university and became a professor. His research interests mainly focus on the pathogenomics and evolution of food-borne pathogens, in particular Campylobacter spp. and Escherichia coli, and also on functional bacterial genomics and metagenomics.