Data Science for Cellular Genomics
Developing data standards, workflows, infrastructure, and methods to enable interpretation, sharing, reuse, and integration of single-cell datasets.
Biography
Prof Irene Papatheodorou is the Head of Data Science at the Earlham Institute.
Irene leads a group of skilled data-led scientists, focusing on:
- developing software and metadata standards for openly and reproducibly sharing different types of omics data and images
- decoding phenotypes using single-cell genomics.
Previously, Irene led the Gene Expression team at EMBL-EBI where she developed the Single Cell Expression Atlas, EMBL-EBI’s core resource for single cell transcriptomics data.
At EBI she led community efforts for developing the first metadata standards and standardised analysis workflows for single-cell RNA-Seq data.
She continues to contribute to large-scale cell atlas projects such as the Human Cell Atlas, Plant Cell Atlas and Biodiversity Cell Atlas.
Irene holds a BSc in Genetics from University College London, MSc in Bioinformatics and a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
