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Rob Finn
European Bioinformatics Institute

Dr. Rob Finn heads the Genome Assembly and Annotation Section and is the lead of the Microbiome Informatics team at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Rob is also co-lead on Ensembl, and while maintaining scientific oversight for the whole resource, part of his team responsible for the microbial divisions found in Ensembl.  The Microbiome Informatics team also produces MGnify, a world leading resource for the functional and taxonomic analysis and archiving of microbiome derived sequence data.  In addition to making large numbers of datasets available, each processed in a systematic way, the resource allows scientists to upload their own data, either privately or publicly, and assemble and analyse their data. Across the MGnify resources, >400K genomes, >60,000 assemblies and >2.4 billion redundant proteins. Complementing these biological resources, Rob has a small research team that develop algorithms for exploring microbial genomic diversity, as well as gaining deeper insights into the interaction between bacteria and phages. Rob joined EMBL-EBI from the Janelia Research Campus in the US, where he led a group that designed fast, web-based, interactive protein-sequence searches and annotations. Between 2001 and 2010, he was the project leader for Pfam at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK. Rob’s academic background is in microbiology and he holds a PhD in biochemistry from Imperial College, London

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Syma Khalid
University of Oxford

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