Have you ever wanted to pack in your job and move to the other side of the world? We chat to Phil Ashton on his travels as a bioinformatician, going from the UK to Vietnam to Malawi. We also wander into microbial bioinformatics and his passion for Salmonella and ETEC. Papers mentioned: SNP-sites: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320690/ Genotyphi: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12827/ ETEC lineages: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.16.203430v1.abstract