Course organisers

Piraveen Gopalasingam – EMBL-EBI

Piv joined EMBL-EBI in 2017 as a Scientific Training Officer for the Training Team and is primarily responsible for the scientific development and delivery of training within the CABANA project. He is a Train the Trainer instructor, and has an interest in science communication, community building, equality, diversity and inclusion.

Piv gained his BSc in Biomedical sciences at Queen Mary University of London in 2009 before completing his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2015, investigating the structural biology of cancer-causing phosphatases. Whilst writing his thesis he joined the University of Warwick as a postdoctoral researcher studying receptor-ligand interactions and later took on a teaching position at Kingston University London. During this time, he obtained associate fellowship status from the Higher Education Academy, supervised structural bioinformatics MSc projects, co-organised the local Café Scientifique and co-founded the London chapter of PubhD, a communication platform for researchers to explain their work to the public.

Iris Diana Yu – EMBL-EBI

Iris is a bioinformatician in the data production team of the Expression Atlas group in EMBL-EBI. She helps build, maintain, and improve the pipelines that produce the datasets made available via the Expression Atlas and Single-Cell Expression Atlas resources. Prior to this role, she was a research bioinformatician at the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines, and a service bioinformatician at the Core Facility for Bioinformatics of the Philippine Genome Center. In those roles, she had the opportunity to handle omics projects that ranged across the health, agriculture, and biodiversity fields. Iris, currently a Cambridge resident, was born and raised in the islands of the Philippines.

ORCID: 0000-0003-3627-2393

Jiawei Wang – EMBL-EBI

I am a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and EMBO Non-Stipendiary Fellow at European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, the University of Cambridge. I specialize in using machine learning and deep learning to address complex biological questions, with a background spanning software engineering, computer science, and computational biology. I work with Dr. John Marioni and Dr. Rob Finn at EMBL-EBI on single-cell genomics, multi-omics integration, and their applications to study mammalian embryo development and bacteria population at single-cell level. Concurrently, my collaboration with Dr. Rob Finn and Prof. Trevor Lithgow, at Monash University, focuses on modelling bacteria and phage protein sequences using deep learning to gain insights into interactions among bacteria, hosts, and bacteriophages. 

ORCID: 0000-0001-5940-8113