Student supervision
Co-supervision (45%) of Antony Rose, PhD student, Newcastle University (Feb 2022-present), ‘Bioinformatic atlasing of early human development from organ to organism using single cell analysis’
Co-supervision (50%) of Shaista Madad, PhD student, Sanger Institute (March-May 2022; rotation project), ‘Multimodal profiling and annotation of early stage human embryos’
Co-supervision (25%) of Phuong Le, PhD student, Sanger Institute (March-May 2023; rotation project), ‘Comparing single cell RNA sequencing profile between skin organoids and fetal skin’
Co-supervision (50%) of Sam Beales, MRes Immunobiology student, Newcastle University (Feb-July 2023), ‘Using human developmental data to inform haematopoietic organoid design’
Supervision (100%) of Segen Tecle, A-Level summer placement, Nuffield Scholars (July-Sept 2020), ‘An introduction to data analysis and reproducibility in R’
Teaching
Wellcome Collection – Exploring Genetic Automata – Invited panellist in conversation with Wellcome Collections Youth Panel and Dr Sasha Henriques about equity and ethics in scientific research - 16th August 2023.
Cragside Primary School - Spy school- a primary school science engagement activity. I co-organised a science fair, held for 300 primary school students ranging from 4-11 years old over a three-day period. 10th-12th Jan 2023.
EMBL-EBI - Single-cell RNA-seq analysis into interpretation (virtual course) - Invited trainer talk and Q&A titled ‘Clustering, annotation and pseudotime inference tools for scRNA-seq data – a quick guide’. 10-11th March 2022 (I am a returning invited trainer on this yearly course (28-29th April 2021; 10-11th March 2022; 7-10th Feb 2023).
Black in Immunology – Black in Immunology Week 2022 – Invited panellist on a workshop titled ‘Tips for applying bioinformatics to your research’. 15th November 2022.
Data Visualisation Society - Outlier Conference 2021 - Invited talk titled ‘#BlackInDataWeek: Connecting and celebrating Black people in data fields.’ 4th February 2021
Newcastle University - Immunity and Inflammation theme meeting - Talk entitled ‘Gender roles and their impact in academia’ [feedback from EMBO|EMBL|HHMI conference attendance]. 23rd Oct 2020
Imperial College London - ImperialAsOne - Invited postgraduate panellist for ‘The Windrush Legacy: Power of Education’ seminar. 22nd June 2020
Newcastle University - Human Cell Atlas Maker Jam x Haniffa Lab Public Q&A - Chair and moderator. 11th June 2021
University of Bradford - MSc Biomedical Sciences and Bioinformatics seminar series - Invited talk titled ‘Story of a paper: Decoding fetal liver haematopoiesis’. 19th April 2021
Newcastle University - Human Cell Atlas City Team Artists x Haniffa Lab Q&A - Chair and moderator. 7th December 2020
Black in Data - #BlackInDataWeek - Moderator of ‘Bias in AI algorithms' webinar, in conversation with Dr Brandeis Marshall and Alise Otilia Ramírez. 20th Nov 2020
Imperial College London - ImperialAsOne - Invited presenter for MSc critical thinking tutorial titled: ‘Story of a paper - the hidden side of science’. 15th Oct 2020
Pint of Science - Skin, Society, Science - Invited webinar panellist. 10th Sept 2020
Abbvie UK - RA Awareness Week - Invited trustee/patient speaker for ‘Improving care for rheumatoid arthritis in the COVID era’ parliamentary webinar. 9th Sept 2020