Trainer biographies
Genevieve Evans | EMBL-EBI
Genevieve has worked as researcher in protein science at 4 different labs in 3 different countries, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium. She received her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Canterbury with supervisor Professor Juliet Gerrard. Dame Juliet Gerrard is now the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor.Genevieve’s focus in most of these labs was trying to generate new experimental data for structural biology, as well as using a wide variety of techniques to generate other data to characterize protein:protein or protein:ligand interactions. X-ray crystallography was the primary technique she utilized when trying to determine new protein structures.Genevieve currently works as biocurator at PDBe, one of the members of wwPDB. When new structural data is deposited in the database, Genevieve is part of team of biocurators who processes this data and correspond with the scientists about their data. The PDB is an open-source database that predates the internet.
Sudakshina Ganguly | EMBL-EBI
I am a structural biologist with expertise in the area of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy. Currently, I am working as a Scientific Database Curator with the Protein Data Bank in Europe.
Yvonne Lussi | EMBL-EBI
Yonne is a Senior Scientific Database Curator at UniProt.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5753-0235
Paulyna Magaña | EMBL-EBI
Paulyna is a bioinformatician for the AlphaFold Database at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe).
ORCID: 0009-0004-1524-2966
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
Aleena studied Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at King’s College London. She joined the Quadram Institute Biosciences, UK to pursue her PhD in the field of Molecular Biology. Her PhD investigated the molecular and microbial changes in the gut-liver axis in response to the high-fibre and low-fibre Western diets. Aleena joined EMBL-EBI as an Ensembl Outreach Officer in 2021 and delivers training on Ensembl resources.
