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| John Todd | Director |
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John Todd is Professor of Medical Genetics at Cambridge University, UK, and Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Todd's research centres on the molecular genetic and mechanistic basis of the autoimmune, inflammatory disease, type 1 diabetes. |
| Anthony Rogers | Head of Facility |
| Anthony gained his PhD at the University of Leicester under Prof. Bambos Kyriacou. After a brief sojourn in the video game development industry Anthony joined the Sanger Institute working for Richard Durbin on the WormBase project. After 3 years he took over as the project manager. Whilst at the Sanger he also participated in the Gorilla genome sequencing project. |
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Sequencing Team |
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| Ilenia Simeoni | Head of Laboratory |
| Ilenia gained her PhD in Molecular Medicine at the University of Siena in Italy where she was interested in a family of intracellular calcium release channels localised in skeletal and cardiac muscles. She then moved to Cambridge and spent seven years at the Gurdon Institute studying the role of a signalling pathway during the early stage of frog development. She also focused on the mechanisms of nuclear reprogramming. |
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| Louise Godfrey | Research Assistant |
| Louise gained her degree in Forensic Science, and then spent a couple of years in Microbiology. She then moved into Contract Research doing WGA, RNA, taqman, genotyping and sanger sequencing before going into Next Generation Sequencing. She has now spent 5 years in the field spread between commercial and academia. With experience from helping to set up and run lab work, incorporating a quality management systems and GLP. |
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| Claire Haskins | Research Assistant |
| Claire carried out her BSc in biology at York and MSc at Hull where she studied the evolution of the cichlid species flock. She then spent several years working on short term research projects before joining the University of York Technology Facility running the capillary DNA sequencing service and protein ID services. She then joined the Sanger Institute working on the mouse genotyping project before moving to EASIH. |
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| Emma Eastwell | Senior Lab Technician |
| Emma has gained more than 26 years experience in many scientific practices, whilst working at a Contract Research Organisation. In more recent years, Emma has been involved in quantitative whole-body autoradiography (QWBA) studies as a Senior Study Scientist before joining EASIH in August 2011. She is currently studying towards her BSc (Hons) Life Sciences with an Open University and intends to graduate next year. |
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| Anna Livings | Senior Lab Technician |
| Anna worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory for 1.5 years after finishing her A-levels, before working in the East Anglian Medical Genetics Service for 3.5 years whilst studying for her BSc (Hons) in Applied Biomedical Science. After this, she spent 2.5 years as a technician in Dr Stephen Sawcer's MS Genetics lab at the University of Cambridge before transferring to the EASIH in November 2011. |
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| Ruth Littleboy | Senior Lab Technician |
| Ruth initially trained as a veterinary nurse and following some experience in a veterinary biochemistry lab, moved into human diagnostic biochemistry. After a prostate research project at Addenbrookes Biochemistry lab, Ruth moved to the NHS Molecular Genetics lab as a Genetic Technologist. Her main responsibilities involved extracting DNA from various sample types by automated and manual means, PCR , prepping sequencing samples and running the robots and Sanger sequencers. She was also responsible for the training of new members of staff in DNA extraction. |
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| Howard Martin | Clinical Scientist |
| Howard gained his degree and PhD in the field of Biotechnology, from the University of Warwick. After relocating to Cambridge, he spent nine years as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, investigating genetic control of embryological development, before joining the East Anglian Regional Molecular Genetics Laboratory at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2003. As a state registered clinical scientist, he has experience of clinical diagnostic genetics, in addition to developing the high throughput sequencing facility within the clinical laboratories, and the implementation of new diagnostic assays and services. In association with the EASIH, he is currently developing next generation sequencing for clinical diagnostic use, in addition to collaborating on a number of medical next generation sequencing projects including X chromosome sequencing in patients with learning disability, HLA typing and HIV sequencing. |
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| Javier Armisen Garrido | Research Associate |
| Javier gained his M.Sc and Ph.D in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis working on gene expression regulation. He then joined the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge studying the role of small RNAs during development with a strong focus on finding novel druggable targets to regulate small RNAs functions. |
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| Fay Veryard | Senior Lab Technician |
| Fay gained a degree in Forensic Science in 2008. She then moved to Cambridge to work as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in the NHS Haematology Lab. Her main duties were to process blood samples from the hospital and from GP surgeries. After a year Fay joined the East Anglian Medical Genetic Service as a Genetic Technologist. Her duties included sample reception, DNA extraction, PCR, use of robots and the Sanger sequencers. After gaining 2.5 years of experience she moved to the EASIH lab. |
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Data Analysis Team |
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| Kim Brugger | Head of Bioinformatics |
| Kim gained his PhD degree and Post doc at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark doing capillary sequencing and genomic analysis of Prokaryotic organisms. From there he moved to the Sanger Institute where he spent a year and a half working on the the reference genomes for human, mouse and zebrafish |
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| Chris Penkett | Bioinformatician |
| Chris gained his PhD at the University of Oxford studying structural biology. After spending several years working in the pharmaceutical industry he joined the Sanger Institute, working as the bioinformatics support for the S. pombe analysis team focussing on gene expression and ChIP-chip microarrays. Before joining the EASIH, Chris worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute on the database of molecular structures. |
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| Sri Vishnu Vardhan Deevi | Bioinformatician |
| Sri obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from The University of Reading in 2008. He then worked as the data manager of the New Pipeline Group within the Sequencing Informatics Team at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (2008-2011) and was associated with the Quality Control of High Throughput Illumina Sequencing Data, before joining EASIH in March 2011. |
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| Sam Haldenby | Bioinformatician |
| Sam carried out his PhD and Post doc at the University of Nottingham, studying the genetic pathways of homologous recombination and DNA repair in archaea. He then joined Source BioScience where he worked as an R&D scientist/bioinformatician, creating new software and analysing next generation sequencing data. |
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Support Team |
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| Selina Day | Business Manager |
| Selina began her finance career at Barclays Bank. Whilst her children were young she worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Data
submissions and studied for her BSc with the Open University. Selina returned to Finance and after 14 years in industry joined the EASIH from a large defence engineering firm where she was the Finance Manager. She is currently studying for an MSc in Professional Science |
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| Robert Klima | IT Systems Manager |
| Robert has spent the last 20 years in USA, firstly at Texas A&M University where he was instrumental in building their supercomputer infrastructure and supporting the Department of Chemistry. He has also worked at the University of Chicago for 2 years, supporting the Human Genetics Department. |
| Karen Laurence | Senior Administrative Assistant |
| Karen joined EASIH from the University of Cambridge, Institute of Metabolic Science where she worked alongside the Departmental Administrator. Prior to this Karen was Assistant to the Office Manager at SQW Consulting, an international firm of Economic Management consultants, for 16 years. During this time she gained vast experience in all aspects of office administration which are fully utilised by EASIH. |
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| Sophie Broughton | Administrative Assistant |
| I started off working in a veterinary practice as a receptionist/auxiliary nurse. I used to assist surgeries, take blood from different animals and work in the pharmacy testing different types of samples. I then moved and worked at The Gurdon Institute for a year as an animal technician with mice. I then decided to move my career in a different path and looked towards admin, as I already have quite a lot of experience in that sector and thoroughly enjoy it. I am currently studying for my BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science with the Open University. I play the guitar in my spare time and have reached my grade 8 qualification. |
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