SHEFFIELD BIOINFORMATICS CORE - Key Persons
Akshay joined the Sheffield Bioinformatics Core in October 2023. He is funded by Prof. Jim Catto to perform Bioinformatics analysis on Bladder and Prostate cancer datasets
Job Titles:
- Student ( Co - Supervised )
Experience
2021-2025: PhD (Chemical and Biological Engineering) Bioinformatics underpinning cell engineering for biopharmaceutical production. Supervised by [David C James](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cbe/people/academic-staff/david-james. University of Sheffield. Funded by and in collaboration with Lonza Biologics.
2020-ongoing: Sleep and dementia research with Dementia Platform UK.
2017-2021: Msci (Integrated Master's in Biomedical Sciences) University of Southampton.
Ben is an industrial PhD student at the University of Sheffield primarily supervised by David C James and co-supervised by Mark J Dunning.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Scientific Director
Dennis joined The University of Sheffield in September 2016 as a Lecturer in Genomic Medicine. During his time at Sheffield he acted as the co-Director for the MSc in Genomic Medicine course and Lead PI for Genomics in the NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Scientist
Emily joined the Bioinformatics Core at The University of Sheffield in September 2017.
Experience
2017 - Present: Bioinformatician - Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of Sheffield
Emily joined the Bioinformatics Core at The University of Sheffield in September 2017. She has supported research for a wide variety of analysis projects across the University. She is leading the analysis for single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data. Emily leads the teaching on some of our training workshops, and is an accredited instructor of The Carpentries and attained FHEA status with AdvanceHE.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Associate
Lewis joined the Bioinformatics Core as Cancer Bioinformatican in June 2022 to support Bladder Cancer Projects. He joined Sheffield Hallam University as a senior lecturer in Data Science Analytics, but retains an honorary contract with The University of Sheffield
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Associate
Magda joined the Bioinformatics Core at The University of Sheffield in June 2021. She develops Bioinformatics software for Thushan De Silva's group in the Division of Clinical Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Associate
Manoj's research has been centered around the functional characterization of genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic changes observed in cellular and experimental models of Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Director
Mark joined The University of Sheffield in October 2017 to establish the Bioinformatics Core. He works on a variety of different projects, and has a particular interest in Cancer Bioinformatics. He leads the development of our training program and is an accredited Carpentries instructor and FHEA.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Analyst
I joined University of Sheffield Bioinformatics Core in May 2018 to provide support for the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and other university projects in addition to strengthening the clinical bioinformatics services. Recently I have helped deliver >10,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes as part of COG-UK. I bring my experience in the delivery of genomics at scale to the Sheffield Bioinformatics Core. With a H-index of 28 and > 11,000 citations I have made a measureable impact on the field of genomics.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Associate
Niamh joined the team in May 2022 following a PhD with Dennis Wang and Allan Lawrie at the University of Sheffield. She is currently working as a postdoc at Imperial College.
Job Titles:
- Bioinformatics Core Associate
Sharon joined the Bioinformatics Core at The University of Sheffield in February 2021. She worked with the Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group to support the delivery of a large-scale and rapid whole-genome virus sequencing project, as a part of the COG-UK study.