Our team brings together subject-matter expertise in ’omics, statistics, and computation, with strengths in research data management and the UK’s largest Carpentries chapter, to build an extensive cohort of confident practitioners and a scalable and sustainable network of health and bioscience data science training for the UK.
Main project (Feb 2021 - Feb 2023)
Co-Investigators
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Alison Meynert, Senior Research Fellow & IGC Bioinformatics Analysis Core Manager, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Alex Twyford, Lecturer in Botany & Academic Lead to Edinburgh Genomics, School of Biological Sciences |
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Catalina Vallejos, Chancellor’s Fellow & Fellow of the Turing Institute, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Edward Wallace, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, School of Biological Sciencs |
Programme Coordination
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Giacomo Peru, Coordinator, EPCC |
Team
Computational workflows
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Alison Meynert, Co-Lead, Senior Research Fellow & IGC Bioinformatics Analysis Core Manager, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Alex Twyford, Co-Lead, Lecturer in Botany & Academic Lead to Edinburgh Genomics, School of Biological Sciences |
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Tim Booth, Bioinformatician/Programmer, Edinburgh Genomics |
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Nathan Medd, Training and Outreach Manager, Edinburgh Genomics |
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Graeme Grimes, Bioinformatician & IGC Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Flic Anderson, Research Assistant in Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciencs |
Data management & FAIR principles
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Edward Wallace, Co-Lead, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, School of Biological Sciences |
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Andrew Millar, Co-Lead, Chair of Systems Biology & Business Owner of University Research Data Service, School of Biological Sciences, SynthSys |
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Andrew Romanowski, Research Data Manager, Biological Research Data Management Team, School of Biological Sciences |
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Tomasz Zielinski, RoleTBD, Biological Research Data Management Team, School of Biological Sciences |
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Ines Boehm, Research Consenter/Processor, CRUK-Tissue Group, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer and Royal Infirmary Edinburgh |
Statistics
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Catalina Vallejos, Co-Lead, Chancellor’s Fellow & Fellow of the Turing Institute, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Ailith Ewing, Co-Lead, Chancellor's Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit and Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Alan O'Callaghan, PhD student, Vallejos Group, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Gail Robertson, RoleTBD, Statistical Consultancy Unit, School of Mathematics |
Website development
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Giacomo Peru, Coordinator, EPCC |
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Robert Nagy, PhD Candidate, Cancer Informatics Group, MRC IGC CRUK Edinburgh Centre |
Steering Group
The Ed-DaSH Steering Group is formed of the Co-investigators and Co-leads of the development teams, along with representation from across the University of Edinburgh.
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Karen Halliday, Dean of Systematic Inclusion & Professor and Chair of Systems Physiology, The College of Science and Engineering |
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Malcolm Macleod, Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience & University of Edinburgh Academic Lead for Research Improvement and Research Integrity, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences |
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Mick Watson, Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The Roslin Institute |
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Neil Chue Hong, Director, Software Sustainability Institute & Senior Research Fellow, EPCC |
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Nicola Cuthbert, Researcher Development Manager, Institute for Academic Development |
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Teresa Ironside, Director of Data Science Education, Bayes Centre |
Extension (Dec 2023 - Mar 2024)
Project Lead
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Alison Meynert, Senior Research Fellow & IGC Bioinformatics Analysis Core Manager, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
Co-Investigators
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Ailith Ewing, Chancellor's Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit and Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Catalina Vallejos, Chancellor’s Fellow & Fellow of the Turing Institute, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Edward Wallace, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, School of Biological Sciencs |
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Giacomo Peru, Project Coordinator, EPCC |
Lesson Reviewers
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Graeme Grimes, Bioinformatician & IGC Bioinformatics Training Coordinator, MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Cancer |
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Mary Llewellyn, Course Developer, School of Mathematics |
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Tim Booth, Bioinformatician/Programmer, Edinburgh Genomics |
Programme Coordination
