Supervision & line-management
Co-supervision (20%) of Marta Chroscik, PhD student, Newcastle University (Sept 2024-present), ‘Predicting the origins of mast cells in cutaneous mastocytosis’
Line management of Jake Jackson, Bioinformatic Technician, Newcastle University (Oct 2023-present)
Co-supervision (45%) of Antony Rose, PhD student, Newcastle University (Feb 2022-Sept 2024), ‘Early human development using single cell sequencing technologies’
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 & Outreach
Cragside Primary School – Deep Time Escape - a primary school science engagement activity. I co-organised a science fair, held for 150 primary school students ranging from 7-11 years old over a two-day period. 10th-11th Jan 2024.
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 was a returning invited trainer on this yearly course for it’s duration (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
University of Bradford - MSc Biomedical Sciences and Bioinformatics seminar series - Invited talk titled ‘Story of a paper: Decoding fetal liver haematopoiesis’. 19th April 2021
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
Academic citizenship
Chairing conference sessions
Research Software Engineering Conference - Chair and moderator of the keynote session by Prof Muzlifah Haniffa titled ‘The role of research software engineering in accelerating clinical translation of biomedical research’. 3rd Sept 2024
Human Cell Atlas - Chair and moderator of the ‘Human Cell Atlas Maker Jam x Haniffa Lab’ public Q&A. 11th June 2021
Human Cell Atlas - Chair and moderator of the ‘Human Cell Atlas City Team Artists x Haniffa Lab’ Q&A. 7th December 2020
Black in Data - Chair and moderator of ‘Bias in AI algorithms' webinar, in conversation with Dr Brandeis Marshall and Alise Otilia Ramírez. 20th Nov 2020
North East Postgraduate Conference - Conference host, leader of conference organising committee, and chair of ‘Immunology’ oral presentation session. 22nd Nov 2019
Recruitment interview panellist
Newcastle University - Senior Research Software Engineer (panel member for 1x post in 2024)
Newcastle University - Research Associate (panel member for 1x post in 2024)
Newcastle University - Bioinformatic Technician (panel chair for 2x posts in 2024)
Sanger Institute - Principal Bioinformatician (panel member for 1x post in 2022)
Peer-review of Blood journal research articles (March 2024-present)
Bi-weekly computational trouble-shooting clinic with Jardine Lab members (Feb 2024-present)