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Overview
I specialise in Bioinformatics workflow and FAIR data stewardship in Life Sciences, participating in and leading (inter)national co-working driving data reuse and adoption of the FAIR Principles. FAIR is now one of the four priorities of UKRI’s Digital Research Infrastructure programme (DRI) and I head FAIR initiatives in two of these DRIs: ELIXIR-UK and BioFAIR, and have contributed to another three: Isambard3, CaSDaR-Network+ and SSI.
I am the data colead and management board member for ELIXIR-UK, the UK node (30 research organisations) of ELIXIR. ELIXIR is the European intergovernmental organisation dedicated to managing, promoting and safeguarding life science data (23 countries) where participate in ELIXIR’s AI Ecosystem Focus Group, convened to landscape and engage international initiatives and stakeholders, priming a future international AI community.
I work in a breadth of activities across life science disciplines, achieving impact through the co-creation of (inter)nationally adopted research outputs. These include communities of practice (ELIXIR-UK RDM club), training/web resources (DaSH Data Stewardship), whitepapers (EOSC, BioFAIR), and user-stories of lived experience (BioFAIR). (Inter)national outputs are mobilised within Cardiff University as part of my co-directorship of the Systems Immunology Research Institute and my management role in the Digital Transformation Innovation Institute, where I lead digital components of consortia including the Wales Kidney Research Unit and SW2 Mental Health Platform Research Hub. As part of this work, I am a member of the EOSC Long-Term Data Preservation task force, CaSDaR national data stewardship network, and the Highly Personalised Medicines Expert Working Group for the Commission on Human Medicines.
Publication
2026
- Robinson, E. et al., 2026. Scrnaseq of thyroid eye disease orbital fat demonstrates fibroblast thyroid hormone signaling and sparc production [Abstract]. Endocrine Abstracts 119 OP01-03. (10.1530/endoabs.119.op-01-03)
- Cockayne, L. et al. 2026. LIPID MAPS: Powering discovery in lipidomics. Science Signaling 19 (936) eaeg3389. (10.1126/scisignal.aeg3389)
- Derrac Soria, A. et al. 2026. IL-6 and IL-27 negatively regulate CRTAM-expressing CD4+ T-cells associated with lymphoid-driven synovitis. null (10.1101/2024.09.03.610972)
2025
- Parkinson, E. et al. 2025. A rapid time-resolved host gene expression signature predicts responses to antibiotic treatment in neonatal bacterial sepsis. Science Translational Medicine 17 (826) eadt1938. (10.1126/scitranslmed.adt1938)
- Thomas, C. P. et al. 2025. 12/15-lipoxygenase orchestrates murine wound healing via PPARγ-activating oxylipins acting holistically to dampen inflammation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (36) e2502640122. (10.1073/pnas.2502640122)
2024
- D'Anna, F. et al., 2024. A research data management (RDM) community for ELIXIR. F1000Research 13 ELIXIR-230. (10.12688/f1000research.146301.2)
- Lu, Y. et al. 2024. Sex-specific proximal tubular cell differentiation pathways identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. Scientific Reports 14 (1) 24041. (10.1038/s41598-024-73102-7)
- Czubala, M. A. et al. 2024. Tissue-specific transcriptional programming of macrophages controls the microRNA transcriptome targeting multiple functional pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry 300 (5) 107244. (10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107244)
- Nieto-Rosado, M. et al. 2024. Colonisation of hospital surfaces from low- and middle-income countries by extended spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing bacteria. Nature Communications 15 2758. (10.1038/s41467-024-46684-z)
- Cabezas De La Fuente, D. et al. 2024. Impaired oxysterol-liver X receptor signaling underlies aberrant cortical neurogenesis in a human stem cell model of neurodevelopmental disorder. Cell Reports 43 (3) 113946. (10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113946)
2023
- Conroy, M. J. et al. 2023. LIPID MAPS: Update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community. Nucleic Acids Research gkad896. (10.1093/nar/gkad896)
- Hanna, S. J. et al. 2023. Single-cell RNAseq identifies clonally expanded antigen-specific T-cells following intradermal injection of gold nanoparticles loaded with diabetes autoantigen in humans. Frontiers in Immunology 14 1276255. (10.3389/fimmu.2023.1276255)
- Millrine, D. et al., 2023. Th1 cells alter the inflammatory signature of IL-6 by channeling STAT transcription factors to Alu-like retroelements. The Journal of Immunology 211 (2), pp.274-286. (10.4049/jimmunol.2300114)
- Clement, M. et al. 2023. Inhibitory IL-10-producing CD4+ T cells are T-bet-dependent and facilitate cytomegalovirus persistence via coexpression of arginase-1. eLife 12 e79165. (10.7554/eLife.79165)
- Baldwin, A. et al. 2023. Storage of halved strawberry fruits affects aroma, phytochemical content and gene expression, and is affected by pre-harvest factors. Frontiers in Plant Science 14 1165056. (10.3389/fpls.2023.1165056)
- Parkinson, E. et al. 2023. Gene filtering strategies for machine learning guided biomarker discovery using neonatal sepsis RNA-seq data. Frontiers in Genetics 14 1158352. (10.3389/fgene.2023.1158352)
- Oruganti, S. et al., 2023. Immune and metabolic markers for identifying and investigating severe Coronavirus disease and Sepsis in children and young people (pSeP/COVID ChYP study): protocol for a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open 13 e067002. (10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067002)
- Rastogi, N. et al. 2023. Nuclear factor I-C overexpression promotes monocytic development and cell survival in acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 37 , pp.276-287. (10.1038/s41375-022-01801-z)
2022
- Ni, Z. et al., 2022. Guiding the choice of informatics software and tools for lipidomics research applications. Nature Methods 20 (2), pp.193-204. (10.1038/s41592-022-01710-0)
- Carvalho, M. J. et al., 2022. Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 7 , pp.1337-1347. (10.1038/s41564-022-01184-y)
- Sands, K. et al. 2022. Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Infectious Diseases 22 (1) 593. (10.1186/s12879-022-07541-w)
- Takala, R. et al. 2022. Pinolenic acid exhibits Anti-inflammatory and Anti-atherogenic effects in Peripheral blood- derived Monocytes from patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Scientific Reports 12 8807. (10.1038/s41598-022-12763-8)
- Ponsford, M. J. et al. 2022. Examining the utility of extended laboratory panel testing in the emergency department for risk stratification of patients with COVID-19: a single-centre retrospective service evaluation. Journal of Clinical Pathology 75 (4), pp.255-262. (10.1136/jclinpath-2020-207157)
- Khan, U. B. et al. 2022. Identifying large-scale recombination and capsular switching events in Streptococcus agalactiae strains causing disease in adults in the UK between 2014 and 2015. Microbial Genomics 8 (3) 000783. (10.1099/mgen.0.000783)
- Takala, R. et al. 2022. Anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory effects of pinolenic acid in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 61 (3), pp.992-1004. (10.1093/rheumatology/keab467)
- Misheva, M. et al. 2022. Oxylipin metabolism is controlled by mitochondrial β-oxidation during bacterial inflammation. Nature Communications 13 (1) 139. (10.1038/s41467-021-27766-8)
2021
- Chakraborty, M. et al. 2021. nSeP: immune and metabolic biomarkers for early detection of neonatal sepsis-protocol for a prospective multicohort study. BMJ Open 11 (12) e050100. (10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050100)
- Lu, Y. et al. 2021. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies new classes of proximal tubular epithelial cells in kidney fibrosis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 32 (10), pp.2501-2516. (10.1681/ASN.2020081143)
- Jones, R. E. et al. 2021. Modest changes in Spi1 dosage reveal the potential for altered microglial function as seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientific Reports 11 (1) 14935. (10.1038/s41598-021-94324-z)
- Hrastelj, J. et al. 2021. CSF-resident CD4+ T-cells display a distinct gene expression profile with relevance to immune surveillance and multiple sclerosis. Brain Communications (10.1093/braincomms/fcab155)
- Khalid, U. et al. 2021. Determination of a microRNA signature of protective kidney ischemic preconditioning originating from proximal tubules. Scientific Reports 11 (1) 9862. (10.1038/s41598-021-89195-3)
- Sands, K. et al. 2021. Characterization of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 6 , pp.512–523. (10.1038/s41564-021-00870-7)
- Crittenden, S. et al., 2021. Prostaglandin E2 promotes intestinal inflammation via inhibiting microbiota-dependent regulatory T cells. Science Advances 7 (7) eabd7954. (10.1126/sciadv.abd7954)
- Tyrrell, V. J. et al. 2021. Lipidomic and transcriptional analysis of the Linoleoyl-omega-Hydroxyceramide biosynthetic pathway in human psoriatic lesions. Journal of Lipid Research 62 100094. (10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100094)
2020
- Pires, A. et al. 2020. Immune remodelling of the extracellular matrix drives loss of cancer stem cells and tumor rejection. Cancer Immunology Research 8 (12), pp.1520 - 1531. (10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-20-0070)
- Greenshields-Watson, A. et al. 2020. CD4 + T cells recognize conserved influenza A epitopes through shared patterns of V-Gene usage and complementary biochemical features. Cell Reports 32 (2) 107885. (10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107885)
- Meckelmann, S. W. et al. 2020. Metabolic dysregulation of the lysophospholipid/autotaxin axis in the chromosome 9p21 gene SNP rs10757274. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 13 (3), pp.149-164. e002806. (10.1161/CIRCGEN.119.002806)
- Scurr, M. J. et al. 2020. Cancer antigen discovery is enabled by RNA-sequencing of highly purified malignant and non-malignant cells. Clinical Cancer Research (10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-3087)
2019
- Thompson, A. et al. 2019. The protective effect of inflammatory monocytes during systemic C. albicans infection is dependent on collaboration between C-type lectin-like receptors. PLoS Pathogens 15 (6) e1007850. (10.1371/journal.ppat.1007850)
- Twohig, J. P. et al. 2019. Activation of naïve CD4+ T cells re-tunes STAT1 signaling to deliver unique cytokine responses in memory CD4+ T cells. Nature Immunology 20 , pp.458-470. (10.1038/s41590-019-0350-0)
- Allen-Redpath, K. et al. 2019. Phospholipid membranes drive abdominal aortic aneurysm development through stimulating coagulation factor activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (16), pp.8038-8047. (10.1073/pnas.1814409116)
- Liu, Z. et al., 2019. Circular RNA hsa_circ_001783 regulates breast cancer progression via sponging miR-200c-3p. Cell Death and Disease 10 55. (10.1038/s41419-018-1287-1)
- Lear, B. et al., 2019. De novo transcriptome analysis of peduncle necking in cut Rosa hybrida cultivar 'H30'. Acta Horticulturae 1263 , pp.351-358.
2018
- Kentala, H. et al., 2018. OSBP-related protein-2 (ORP2): a novel Akt effector that controls cellular energy metabolism. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 75 (21), pp.4041-4057.
- McCully, M. L. et al. 2018. CCR8 expression defines tissue-resident memory T cells in human skin. Journal of Immunology 200 (5), pp.1639-1650. (10.4049/jimmunol.1701377)
- McNamara, G. I. et al. 2018. Loss of offspring Peg3 reduces neonatal ultrasonic vocalizations and increases maternal anxiety in wild-type mothers. Human Molecular Genetics 27 (3), pp.440-450. (10.1093/hmg/ddx412)
- Kentala, H. et al., 2018. Analysis of ORP2 knockout hepatocytes uncovers a novel function in actin cytoskeletal regulation. FASEB Journal (10.1096/fj.201700604R)
2017
- Dovey, O. M. et al., 2017. Molecular synergy underlies the co-occurrence patterns and phenotype of NPM1-mutant acute myeloid leukemia. Blood 130 (17), pp.1911-1922. (10.1182/blood-2017-01-760595)
- Fisher, C. , Andrews, R. and Skarnes, W. 2017. An efficient method for generation of bi-allelic null mutant mouse embryonic stem cells and its application for investigating epigenetic modifiers. Nucleic Acids Research (10.1093/nar/gkx811)
- Liao, C. et al. 2017. Peritoneal macrophage heterogeneity is associated with different peritoneal dialysis outcomes. Kidney International 91 (5), pp.1088-1103. (10.1016/j.kint.2016.10.030)
Articles
- Robinson, E. et al., 2026. Scrnaseq of thyroid eye disease orbital fat demonstrates fibroblast thyroid hormone signaling and sparc production [Abstract]. Endocrine Abstracts 119 OP01-03. (10.1530/endoabs.119.op-01-03)
- Cockayne, L. et al. 2026. LIPID MAPS: Powering discovery in lipidomics. Science Signaling 19 (936) eaeg3389. (10.1126/scisignal.aeg3389)
- Derrac Soria, A. et al. 2026. IL-6 and IL-27 negatively regulate CRTAM-expressing CD4+ T-cells associated with lymphoid-driven synovitis. null (10.1101/2024.09.03.610972)
- Parkinson, E. et al. 2025. A rapid time-resolved host gene expression signature predicts responses to antibiotic treatment in neonatal bacterial sepsis. Science Translational Medicine 17 (826) eadt1938. (10.1126/scitranslmed.adt1938)
- Thomas, C. P. et al. 2025. 12/15-lipoxygenase orchestrates murine wound healing via PPARγ-activating oxylipins acting holistically to dampen inflammation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (36) e2502640122. (10.1073/pnas.2502640122)
- D'Anna, F. et al., 2024. A research data management (RDM) community for ELIXIR. F1000Research 13 ELIXIR-230. (10.12688/f1000research.146301.2)
- Lu, Y. et al. 2024. Sex-specific proximal tubular cell differentiation pathways identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. Scientific Reports 14 (1) 24041. (10.1038/s41598-024-73102-7)
- Czubala, M. A. et al. 2024. Tissue-specific transcriptional programming of macrophages controls the microRNA transcriptome targeting multiple functional pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry 300 (5) 107244. (10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107244)
- Nieto-Rosado, M. et al. 2024. Colonisation of hospital surfaces from low- and middle-income countries by extended spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing bacteria. Nature Communications 15 2758. (10.1038/s41467-024-46684-z)
- Cabezas De La Fuente, D. et al. 2024. Impaired oxysterol-liver X receptor signaling underlies aberrant cortical neurogenesis in a human stem cell model of neurodevelopmental disorder. Cell Reports 43 (3) 113946. (10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113946)
- Conroy, M. J. et al. 2023. LIPID MAPS: Update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community. Nucleic Acids Research gkad896. (10.1093/nar/gkad896)
- Hanna, S. J. et al. 2023. Single-cell RNAseq identifies clonally expanded antigen-specific T-cells following intradermal injection of gold nanoparticles loaded with diabetes autoantigen in humans. Frontiers in Immunology 14 1276255. (10.3389/fimmu.2023.1276255)
- Millrine, D. et al., 2023. Th1 cells alter the inflammatory signature of IL-6 by channeling STAT transcription factors to Alu-like retroelements. The Journal of Immunology 211 (2), pp.274-286. (10.4049/jimmunol.2300114)
- Clement, M. et al. 2023. Inhibitory IL-10-producing CD4+ T cells are T-bet-dependent and facilitate cytomegalovirus persistence via coexpression of arginase-1. eLife 12 e79165. (10.7554/eLife.79165)
- Baldwin, A. et al. 2023. Storage of halved strawberry fruits affects aroma, phytochemical content and gene expression, and is affected by pre-harvest factors. Frontiers in Plant Science 14 1165056. (10.3389/fpls.2023.1165056)
- Parkinson, E. et al. 2023. Gene filtering strategies for machine learning guided biomarker discovery using neonatal sepsis RNA-seq data. Frontiers in Genetics 14 1158352. (10.3389/fgene.2023.1158352)
- Oruganti, S. et al., 2023. Immune and metabolic markers for identifying and investigating severe Coronavirus disease and Sepsis in children and young people (pSeP/COVID ChYP study): protocol for a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open 13 e067002. (10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067002)
- Rastogi, N. et al. 2023. Nuclear factor I-C overexpression promotes monocytic development and cell survival in acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 37 , pp.276-287. (10.1038/s41375-022-01801-z)
- Ni, Z. et al., 2022. Guiding the choice of informatics software and tools for lipidomics research applications. Nature Methods 20 (2), pp.193-204. (10.1038/s41592-022-01710-0)
- Carvalho, M. J. et al., 2022. Antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiota of mothers and linked neonates with or without sepsis from low- and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 7 , pp.1337-1347. (10.1038/s41564-022-01184-y)
- Sands, K. et al. 2022. Characterisation of Staphylococci species from neonatal blood cultures in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Infectious Diseases 22 (1) 593. (10.1186/s12879-022-07541-w)
- Takala, R. et al. 2022. Pinolenic acid exhibits Anti-inflammatory and Anti-atherogenic effects in Peripheral blood- derived Monocytes from patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Scientific Reports 12 8807. (10.1038/s41598-022-12763-8)
- Ponsford, M. J. et al. 2022. Examining the utility of extended laboratory panel testing in the emergency department for risk stratification of patients with COVID-19: a single-centre retrospective service evaluation. Journal of Clinical Pathology 75 (4), pp.255-262. (10.1136/jclinpath-2020-207157)
- Khan, U. B. et al. 2022. Identifying large-scale recombination and capsular switching events in Streptococcus agalactiae strains causing disease in adults in the UK between 2014 and 2015. Microbial Genomics 8 (3) 000783. (10.1099/mgen.0.000783)
- Takala, R. et al. 2022. Anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory effects of pinolenic acid in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology 61 (3), pp.992-1004. (10.1093/rheumatology/keab467)
- Misheva, M. et al. 2022. Oxylipin metabolism is controlled by mitochondrial β-oxidation during bacterial inflammation. Nature Communications 13 (1) 139. (10.1038/s41467-021-27766-8)
- Chakraborty, M. et al. 2021. nSeP: immune and metabolic biomarkers for early detection of neonatal sepsis-protocol for a prospective multicohort study. BMJ Open 11 (12) e050100. (10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050100)
- Lu, Y. et al. 2021. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies new classes of proximal tubular epithelial cells in kidney fibrosis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 32 (10), pp.2501-2516. (10.1681/ASN.2020081143)
- Jones, R. E. et al. 2021. Modest changes in Spi1 dosage reveal the potential for altered microglial function as seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientific Reports 11 (1) 14935. (10.1038/s41598-021-94324-z)
- Hrastelj, J. et al. 2021. CSF-resident CD4+ T-cells display a distinct gene expression profile with relevance to immune surveillance and multiple sclerosis. Brain Communications (10.1093/braincomms/fcab155)
- Khalid, U. et al. 2021. Determination of a microRNA signature of protective kidney ischemic preconditioning originating from proximal tubules. Scientific Reports 11 (1) 9862. (10.1038/s41598-021-89195-3)
- Sands, K. et al. 2021. Characterization of antimicrobial resistant Gram-negative bacteria that cause neonatal sepsis in seven low and middle-income countries. Nature Microbiology 6 , pp.512–523. (10.1038/s41564-021-00870-7)
- Crittenden, S. et al., 2021. Prostaglandin E2 promotes intestinal inflammation via inhibiting microbiota-dependent regulatory T cells. Science Advances 7 (7) eabd7954. (10.1126/sciadv.abd7954)
- Tyrrell, V. J. et al. 2021. Lipidomic and transcriptional analysis of the Linoleoyl-omega-Hydroxyceramide biosynthetic pathway in human psoriatic lesions. Journal of Lipid Research 62 100094. (10.1016/j.jlr.2021.100094)
- Pires, A. et al. 2020. Immune remodelling of the extracellular matrix drives loss of cancer stem cells and tumor rejection. Cancer Immunology Research 8 (12), pp.1520 - 1531. (10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-20-0070)
- Greenshields-Watson, A. et al. 2020. CD4 + T cells recognize conserved influenza A epitopes through shared patterns of V-Gene usage and complementary biochemical features. Cell Reports 32 (2) 107885. (10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107885)
- Meckelmann, S. W. et al. 2020. Metabolic dysregulation of the lysophospholipid/autotaxin axis in the chromosome 9p21 gene SNP rs10757274. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 13 (3), pp.149-164. e002806. (10.1161/CIRCGEN.119.002806)
- Scurr, M. J. et al. 2020. Cancer antigen discovery is enabled by RNA-sequencing of highly purified malignant and non-malignant cells. Clinical Cancer Research (10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-3087)
- Thompson, A. et al. 2019. The protective effect of inflammatory monocytes during systemic C. albicans infection is dependent on collaboration between C-type lectin-like receptors. PLoS Pathogens 15 (6) e1007850. (10.1371/journal.ppat.1007850)
- Twohig, J. P. et al. 2019. Activation of naïve CD4+ T cells re-tunes STAT1 signaling to deliver unique cytokine responses in memory CD4+ T cells. Nature Immunology 20 , pp.458-470. (10.1038/s41590-019-0350-0)
- Allen-Redpath, K. et al. 2019. Phospholipid membranes drive abdominal aortic aneurysm development through stimulating coagulation factor activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (16), pp.8038-8047. (10.1073/pnas.1814409116)
- Liu, Z. et al., 2019. Circular RNA hsa_circ_001783 regulates breast cancer progression via sponging miR-200c-3p. Cell Death and Disease 10 55. (10.1038/s41419-018-1287-1)
- Lear, B. et al., 2019. De novo transcriptome analysis of peduncle necking in cut Rosa hybrida cultivar 'H30'. Acta Horticulturae 1263 , pp.351-358.
- Kentala, H. et al., 2018. OSBP-related protein-2 (ORP2): a novel Akt effector that controls cellular energy metabolism. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 75 (21), pp.4041-4057.
- McCully, M. L. et al. 2018. CCR8 expression defines tissue-resident memory T cells in human skin. Journal of Immunology 200 (5), pp.1639-1650. (10.4049/jimmunol.1701377)
- McNamara, G. I. et al. 2018. Loss of offspring Peg3 reduces neonatal ultrasonic vocalizations and increases maternal anxiety in wild-type mothers. Human Molecular Genetics 27 (3), pp.440-450. (10.1093/hmg/ddx412)
- Kentala, H. et al., 2018. Analysis of ORP2 knockout hepatocytes uncovers a novel function in actin cytoskeletal regulation. FASEB Journal (10.1096/fj.201700604R)
- Dovey, O. M. et al., 2017. Molecular synergy underlies the co-occurrence patterns and phenotype of NPM1-mutant acute myeloid leukemia. Blood 130 (17), pp.1911-1922. (10.1182/blood-2017-01-760595)
- Fisher, C. , Andrews, R. and Skarnes, W. 2017. An efficient method for generation of bi-allelic null mutant mouse embryonic stem cells and its application for investigating epigenetic modifiers. Nucleic Acids Research (10.1093/nar/gkx811)
- Liao, C. et al. 2017. Peritoneal macrophage heterogeneity is associated with different peritoneal dialysis outcomes. Kidney International 91 (5), pp.1088-1103. (10.1016/j.kint.2016.10.030)
Teaching
Summary
I am an Advance HE Senior Fellow and Carpentries Instructor,with a long history of teaching data skills to researchers in the Life Sciences, including 13 years with the Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses. Presently, I lead teaching and assessment for 3 modules on our MSc programmes in Bioinformatics, Applied and Experimental Clinical Immunology and Medical Genomics, specialising in omics and FAIR data.
Training awards include co-lead on the ELIXIR-UK DaSH Training Fellowship (2021, £0.7M) and module lead in Genomics Education and Training for Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) (2023, £0.9M).
Teaching
2026-present MSc Applied Bioinformatics (MET998 Next Generation Sequencing Analysis II) module lead
2026-2027 MSc Applied Bioinformatics (MET995 Next Generation Sequencing Analysis I) module lead
2024-present Genomic Medicine for NHS Wales (MET955 Bioinformatics and DQA in Genetic Analysis) module colead
2024-present MSc Applied and Experimental Immunology (MET922 Computational Immunology) module lead
2021-2026 MSc Bioinformatics (MET585 Next Generation Sequencing) module lead
2021-present MSc Cancer Biology and Therapeutics (PHT806 Data Analysis and Bioinformatics) teaching
National Training Outputs
Data Management Plans in Bioscience Research
ELIXIR-UK Data Steward Training Fellowship
Qualifications
2024 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
2023 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2022 Certified Carpentries Instructor live-coding
External Appointments
2025-present MSc Immunology Imperial College London, External Examiner
2004-2019 Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses, Bioinformatics tutor
Biography
Previous Academic and Professional Positions
2013-2021 Lead Bioinformatician and Informatics Manager, Cardiff University
2002-2013 Informatics and Genotyping Lead, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
2000-2000 Assistant Professor in Systems Biology, Keio University, Japan
1999-2000 Metabolomics Data Manager, European Bioinformatics Institute
Awards
Determining how bioactive phospholipids regulate development of abdominal aortic aneurysm, 2020-2023, British Heart Foundation (£1.2m), coI
FAIR Data Stewardship Training, 2021-2024, UKRI (£0.75m), colead
Curation of Lipid Pathways by Domain Experts, 2022-2023, ELIXIR (€111k), lead
Protein tyrosine phosphatases as rheostats of Jak-STAT cytokine signals and determinants of disease heterogeneity, 2022-2025, MRC (£1m), coI
Provision of Post Graduate Modules in Genomics Education and Training Services, 2023, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) (£0.9m), col and module lead
FAIR Data Stewardship Training Extension, 2024, UKRI (£42k), colead
Mobilising Data Stewardship Wizard (DSW), 2024, BBSRC (£42k), lead
LIPID MAPS Resource and Database, 2023-2028, MRC (£1.4m), coI
The South Wales and South West England Mental Health Hub, 2024-2029, MRC (£4.3m), coI
What’s So Special About the Female Kidney? 2024, MRC (£24k), coI
Wales Kidney Research Unit, 2025-2028, Welsh Government, (£3m), coI
Cardiff University Research Culture Award (£2k), coI
BioFAIR Fellowship. 2025-2026, BBSRC/MSRC (£22k), lead
Panels
2025 BBSRC/MRC/EPSRC/NERC Doctoral Focal Award in Engineering Biology
2025 BBSRC Doctoral Focal Award in AI and Data in the Biosciences
2025 ELIXIR Core database resources
2024 BBSRC Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund (24BBR)
External Engagements
2025-present BioFAIR Fellow and Ambassador
2024-present Commission on Human Medicine Expert Working Group
2024-present Long-term Data Retention Task Force of the EOSC-A, European Open Science Cloud
2020-present ELIXIR-UK Management Board and Data CoLead
Supervisions
Bioinformatics, a
Current supervision
News articles
Contact Details
[email protected]
+44 29206 87359
Sir Geraint Evans Cardiovascular Research Building, Room 1/14, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN
+44 29206 87359
Sir Geraint Evans Cardiovascular Research Building, Room 1/14, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN
