In this post, we are getting to know Aleena Mushtaq from the Outreach team, who are (interestingly) also in charge of the Ensembl blog! Aleena tells us of the diverse workload of an outreach officer, the public engagement programmes she is involved in, and what she does in her free-time.
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Find out which conferences we are attending, and learn more about the Ensembl project and its staff
Getting to know us: José from Genebuild
Meet José María González Pérez-Silva from the Genebuild team! José describes his work at Ensembl, the experience he had during his university studies, and how he winds down when not surrounded by annotation data.
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This month, we meet Ivana Piližota, who joined the Ensembl Compara team in 2020. She tells us how her everyday work life looks like and what sparked her interest in bioinformatics.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Nuno from Ensembl Variation
We are reviving our Getting to know us blog series! First up is Nuno Agostinho, who joined the Variation team at the end of 2021. Here, we’ll get to know Nuno, what his role is, and how he became part of the Ensembl project.
Continue readingEnsembl’s efforts towards a greener future
Ensembl is rapidly working towards annotating large collections of genomes based on the nodes of the Earth BioGenome Project. Our aim is to characterise the genome of new species to reinvigorate our understanding of biological diversity, strengthen conservation efforts, and benefit human welfare. Read more to find out how Ensembl will contribute to tackle the climate change challenges that face the world today.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 4
Whilst the UK has started to lift some of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, Ensembl staff are still working from home. We are fortunate that we can continue to do this and that there are flexible working arrangements in place to support us.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 3
The start of the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it brought has affected all of us in different ways. In this blog, we hear from Michal and Beth.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 2
It’s now ten weeks since we have started working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The novelty of the situation is gone and we got accustomed to the ‘new normal’.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 1
Ensembl staff have been working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic for eight weeks now. We transitioned to remote work from 16 March – two days before the closure of EMBL-EBI and a week before the Prime Minister announced the UK lockdown on 23 March.
Reaching under-served
Outreach is, by its definition, tied to identifying and serving under-served populations. How does Ensembl address that? We provide services to communities who might not otherwise have access to those services through scientific outreach in low-middle income countries (LMIC) and by public engagement in groups that might lack science exposure. We provide training materials, tutorials and helpdesk support, spread awareness on social media and run webinars, as well as classroom workshops around the world. Our resources are open source and open access, freely available to anyone.
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