Course organisers

Ajay Mishra | EMBL-EBI

Ajay has DPhil in Biochemistry from University of Oxford where he studied the mechanisms underlying the regulation of chromosome segregation during cell division. For his post-doctoral research at Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute and King’s College London, Ajay investigated the molecular mechanisms regulating the stem cell differentiation in human skin using multi-omics, imaging and organotypic culture approaches. After post-doctoral research, Ajay headed a biology team at Cambridge Infinitus Research Centre (CIRCE) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge where the key focus was to elucidate the mechanistic insight of the activity of traditional Chinese medicine in ageing and age-related human disorders such as neurodegeneration. Ajay joined EMBL-EBI Training team as a Scientific Training Officer in July 2019, and is now jointly responsible for managing EMBL-EBI’s e-learning programme.

Barbara Etzi | EMBL-EBI

Barbara joined the training team at EMBL-EBI as an Events Organiser in May 2024. At EBI she organises the logistics for a range of virtual and in person training courses and events.

Prior to EBI, Barbara worked with a number of organisations in both the commercial and non-for-profit sectors, managing a variety of in person, hybrid and online event formats (conferences, exhibitions, university fairs, awards ceremonies, workshops) both nationally and internationally. She thrives in planning and delivering seamless events in challenging environments.

Fabio Madeira | EMBL-EBI

Fabio Madeira is Technical Project Lead Software Engineer at the EMBL-EBI and his work focus on providing core Bioinformatics Sequence Analysis Applications available through the EMBL-EBI website, as well as through reliable Web Services. Fabio is also involved in bioinformatics training and external user support. Before joining EMBL-EBI, Fabio worked under the supervision of Professor Geoff Barton at the University of Dundee, where he obtained a PhD in Computational Biology and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His work focused on the development of new methods to predict 14-3-3-binding proteins, on the characterisation of genetic variants in protein families and interaction interfaces, and later on Bioinformatics Web Services.

Nandana Madhusoodanan | EMBL-EBI

Nandana Madhusoodanan is a Documentation and Bioinformatics Support Officer in the Job Dispatcher team, which is part of the Operations group. Her primary responsibilities include maintaining bioinformatics sequence analysis applications, offering user support, maintaining up-to-date documentation related to these services, and conducting training sessions.