European Bioinformatics Institute

Cath Brooksbank

Head - Training

Before joining EMBL-EBI in 2002 Cath spent a decade as an editor of scientific review journals, cutting her teeth with the Elsevier Trends Journals before launching Nature Reviews Cancer. A brief dalliance with medicine at the University of Oxford led her to seek solace in molecules in Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in biochemistry under the guidance of Robin Irvine. Cath joined EMBL-EBI to develop the outreach programme, and extended her responsibilities to include user training in 2006. Her team now coordinates a wide-ranging portfolio of training and scientific outreach activities reaching tens of thousands of individuals each year. She co-chaired ELIXIR’s training workpackage, which developed a pan-European strategy to train the growing and diversifying users of Europe’s public-domain biological databases. She also works with the Innovative Medicines Initiative’s Education and Training projects to develop their joint strategy on course quality.

cath [at] ebi.ac.uk

Tel:+44 (0)1223 492 525 / Fax:+44 (0)1223 494 468

Training

As part of EMBL-EBI’s mission to serve the research community, the Training Team coordinates EMBL-EBI’s training and scientific outreach activities. We work closely with our colleagues throughout EMBL-EBI, and with the broader bioinformatics training community, to deliver an extensive training programme. This includes courses at EMBL-EBI in our state-of-the-art training facilities, workshops outside EMBL-EBI and free, on-demand elearning at Train online.

EMBL-EBI's training programme is part of EICAT, the EMBL International Centre for Advanced Training. We participate in a number of pan-European projects, including EMTRAIN and BioMedBridges.

We organise conference exhibitions, open days and career days, where you can learn more about EMBL-EBI, its training programme and opportunities at EMBL-EBI.

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Publications

2012

Bioinformatics training network (BTN): A community resource for bioinformatics trainers

Schneider, M. V., Walter P., Blatter M. C., Watson J., Brazas M. D., Rother K., Budd A., Via A., van Gelder C. W. G., Jacob J., et al.

Briefings in Bioinformatics. Volume 13, Number 3, (2012), p.383-389

European initiative towards quality standards in education and training for discovery, development and use of medicines

Klech, H., Brooksbank C., Price S., Verpillat P., Buhler F. R., Dubois D., Haider N., Johnson C., Linden H. H., Payton T., et al.

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences. Volume 45, Number 5, (2012), p.520-520

European initiative towards quality standards in education and training for discovery, development and use of medicines

Klech, H., Brooksbank C., Price S., Verpillat P., Bühler F. R., Dubois D., Haider N., Johnson C., Lindén H. H., Payton T., et al.

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Volume 45, Number 5, (2012), p.515-520

Bioinformatics meets user-centred design: a perspective

Pavelin, K., Cham J. A., De Matos P., Brooksbank C., Cameron G., and Steinbeck C.

PLoS computational biology. Volume 8, Number 7, (2012), p.e1002554 doi:

Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN): a community resource for bioinformatics trainers

Schneider, M. V., Walter P., Blatter M. C., Watson J., Brazas M. D., Rother K., Budd A., Via A., van Gelder C. W., Jacob J., et al.

Briefings in bioinformatics. Volume 13, Number 3, (2012), p.383-389