Trainer biographies
Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich – Queen Mary University of London
Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich’s research uses zebrafish genetics and genomics to study phenotypic robustness and genetic diseases. Elisabeth has been using the zebrafish model for over 20 years. After her PhD at the MPI for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, Elisabeth joined Derek Stemple’s lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, for her postdoc and subsequent work on the Zebrafish Mutation Project. Shen then established her own research group at the University of Cambridge before joining Queen Mary University of London as Senior Lecturer in Organismal Biology.
Ian Sealy – Queen Mary University of London
Ian is a bioinformatician in the Busch Lab and has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Bristol. He worked for seven years as a full stack web developer at the Institute for Learning & Research Technology, specialising in producing accessible and usable web applications with open source tools. He also worked for three years as Head of Technology at The Local, a European news organisation. Ian also worked for 20 years as a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught a part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Web Design and Development. Ian joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2004 to work on a number of projects related to the sequencing, assembly, annotation and mutagenesis of the zebrafish genome, including ZF-MODELS and Ensembl. In 2010 he joined the Zebrafish Mutation Project and since then has worked on a range of projects, most of which are linked by their use of next-generation sequencing to analyse vertebrate gene expression.
Richard White – Queen Mary University of London
Richard is a bioinformatician in the Busch Lab at Queen Mary University of London. Richard’s background is in developmental biology. He did his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, finishing in 2002. He has worked on zebrafish since then, first at the University of California, Irvine in the lab of Tom Schilling, working on retinoic acid (RA) signalling in early anterior-posterior patterning. The project focused on how degradation of RA by CYP26 enzymes affects the dynamics and robustness of RA signalling and involved a collaboration to build a mathematical model of the RA gradient. Richard joined Derek Stemple’s lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2007 and in 2011, he made the switch from wet lab to bioinformatics and joined the Zebrafish Mutation Project to do variant calling from exome sequencing in order to identify mutants. Since then, Richard has worked on software to automate CRISPR/Cas9 experiments (guide RNA design and amplicon screening for variant identification) and large scale RNA-seq studies on early zebrafish and mouse development.
Nancy George – EMBL-EBI
Senior Scientific Curator in the Gene Expression team.
Louisse Paola Mirabueno – EMBL-EBI
Louisse Mirabueno completed her Bachelor’s degree in Genetics and Cell Biology at Dublin City University, and graduated with an MPhil. at the University of Reading. She has worked in both academic institutes and industry. Her experience ranges from genomic analyses in vertebrates and bacterial populations, high-throughput screening in biotech and early-stage drug discovery, and research and development in long-read sequencing. Louisse joined the Ensembl Outreach team in January 2022.
Aleena Mushtaq – EMBL-EBI
I completed my MSc at King’s College London in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Research. My MSc research project led me to pursue a PhD at the Quadram Institute UK in the field of Molecular Biology. For my doctorate, I studied the dynamic relationship of host and microbiota in the gut-liver axis in response to Western diets. I joined EMBL-EBI as an Ensembl Outreach Officer in 2021 and deliver training on Ensembl resources.
Gun Antonia Nilsson Lock – EMBL-EBI
Scientific Database Curator in the Protein Function Content team.
Eliot Ragueneau – EMBL-EBI
Software Engineer in the Molecular Networks team, specifically Reactome and IntAct. Author of IntAct App, contributor of IntAct Portal and Reactome website.
Krishna Kumar Tiwari – EMBL-EBI
Senior Scientific Database Curator in the Molecular Networks team.
