Dr Irilenia Nobeli (PI)
I am a true science mongrel. My background is a mixture of Chemistry, Computer Science and Bioinformatics. When I'm not doing research, marking or filling in workload sheets, I run (very slowly).
Short biography
- Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Birkbeck College (Sep 2007 - now)
- Lecturer in Bioinformatics, King's College London (Oct 2005- Aug 2007)
- MRC training fellowship in Bioinformatics (with prof. Janet Thornton), European Bioinformatics Institute (2001-2005)
- Postdoctoral research fellow (with prof. Janet Thornton), University College London (1999-2001)
- TMR postdoctoral research fellow (with prof. Juan Novoa), University of Barcelona (Nov 1998- Jan 1999)
- PhD in Theoretical/Computational Chemistry (with Prof. Sally Price), UCL Chemistry (1995- 1998)
- MSc in Computing Science, Birkbeck Computer Science (2001- 2003)
- BSc in Computer-Aided Chemistry, University of Surrey (1991-1995)
Current Group Members
Denys Davies
MRes Bioinformatics (part-time, 2022-)
Project: Improving bacterial genome annotation through accurate identification of expressed elements from transcriptomic data
Olamide Makinde
MSc Bioinformatics (part-time, 2021-)
Amber Hilton
MSc Bioinformatics (part-time, 2020-)
Elliot Cotterell
MSc Bioinformatics (part-time, 2019-)
Sarah N'djomon
MSc Bioinformatics (full-time, 2021/22)
Dr Nick Underhill
MRes Bioinformatics (part-time, 2021-)
Project: In silico identification of conserved intergenic regions in Mycobacteria
Bolaji Coker
PhD student (part-time, 2021-)
Project: Mutations in the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis complex and their effect
on protein networks
Harry Boutselakis
PhD student (part-time, 2018-)
Project: Integration and statistical analysis of heterogeneous datasets in cancer
Dr Krzysztof Szkop
Associate Research Fellow
Jennifer Stiens
PhD student, co-supervised with Dr Sharon Kendall, RVC (funded by the Bloomsbury Colleges; 2020-)
Maria Tuffy
Associate research fellow; collaboration with Professor Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera at the Institute of Child Health.
Project: The molecular basis of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma
Alumni
PhD students and PhD rotation students
- Kamila Kamuda, Wellcome Trust rotation PhD student (summer 2019)
- Krzysztof Szkop, Part-time PhD student (2013-2019).
- Kavin Abelak, Bloomsbury PhD student (2014-2018), first supervisor: Dr Bishop-Bailey at the Royal Vet College
- Liam Martin, Wellcome Trust rotation PhD student (Spring 2017)
- Luba Prout, BBSRC LIDo rotation PhD student (Spring 2016)
- Peter Cooke, MRC rotation PhD student (2015-2016), second supervisor: Dr Filipe Cabreiro (UCL)
- Matthew Colledge, MRC CASE (with Pfizer/Neusentis) PhD student (2013-), first supervisor: Professor Bonnie Wallace
- Florence Thomas, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2013) - Virtual screening for polymerisation inhibitors (with Dr Bibek Gooptu)
- Benjy Lichman, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2012) - Protein binding promiscuity (with Prof. David Moss)
- Katie Oliver, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2012) - Re-annotation of the Chlamydia proteins (with Dr Richard Hayward)
- Jan Czarnecki , BBSRC CASE PhD student (2010-2014; industrial sponsor: Unilever), first supervisor: Dr A. Shepherd - Text mining to facilitate metabolic pathway reconstructions.
- Anna Heddell, WT rotation PhD student (winter/spring 2010) - Computational screening for inhibitors of the tuberculosis resuscitation factors (with Prof. Nick Keep)
- Anathe Patschull,
- WT rotation PhD student (autumn 2009) - Computational docking of small molecules to α1-antitrysin (with Dr Bibek Gooptu)
- WT PhD student, (2010/2013) - Computational and experimental studies of riboswitches (first supervisor: Dr Tracey Barrett)
- Paul Ashford, BBSRC CASE PhD student, BBK (2008/2011) - industrial supervisor: Dr A. Alex (Pfizer Ltd), second academic supervisor: Dr Mark Williams
- Jonathan Myles, part-time PhD student, BBK (2008 - break in study) - first supervisor: Dr A. Shepherd
MSc/MRes students
Interns/Undergraduates
- Zheng Nim Summer intern (June/July 2018), undergraduate at UCL
- Aygoustina Economou Summer intern (June/July 2018), undergraduate at King's College London
- Dr Hilary Crowe, BBK final year undergraduate (2017/2018)- Trancriptomic signatures of atherosclerosis (with Dr D. Bishop-Bailey, RVC)
- Samantha Thompson, intern (2016-) - Circular RNAs
- Zirui Xu, summer intern (2015) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
- Benjamin Yang, summer intern (2015) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
- Yamuranai Diya, BBK final year undergraduate (2015)-
- Giacomo Proietti, six-month Erasmus intern from the University of Perugia (2014) - Simulations of CYP2J2
- Rima Cesnaitw, BBK final year undergraduate (2014) - The link between autism and the immune system
- Viktoria Kalna, summer intern (2014) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
- Peter Cooke, summer intern (2014) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
- Dardan Uka, UCL final year undergraduate (literature project) - Alanine racemase in Chlamydia
- Jasper Koehorst, Masters (Wageningen University, Holland) internship (March 2012- August 2012) - Metabolic pathways in Chlamydia
- Krzysztof Szkop, Undergraduate internship (Summer 2011) - Catalytically promiscuous proteins
- Wei Nee Lim, Undergraduate internship (Summer 2009) - COX/LOX inhibition