People
Jorge Ferrer – Scientific Lead
Jorge is Head of the Section of Epigenomics and Disease, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, MRC Programme Leader, and leads Genetics and Genomics in the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre. He has a longstanding interest in genome regulation of pancreatic beta cells and its implications for human diabetes.
Vahid Elyasigomari - Post Doctoral Researcher
Vahid works on the development of Islet specific non-coding variant annotation tool, a machine learning approach that integrates various datasets ranging from functional, regulatory, and comparative genomics. Before that, he was a research associate at the Data Science Institute where he worked on projects such as eTRIKS and BioVacSafe to develop a translational medicine data management platform (PlatformTM). His research interests are bioinformatics and large-scale biomedical data management and analysis.
Emily Heathward - Graduate Student
Emily is a graduate student funded by the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership for the research theme of Experimental Medicine. Her research focuses on modelling pancreatic beta cell enhancer function in diabetes through CRISPR-based screening methods and pathophysiological modelling.
Dorota Cieslak-Jones - PA to Jorge Ferrer
Provides direct support to the Section Head and administrative support to academic staff within the Section.
Email: d.cieslak-jones@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)207 594 2739 / +44(0)207 594 2245
Alumni
- Matías De Vas (Molecular biology engineer, Micrographia Bio)
- Inês Cebola (Lecturer, Imperial College London)
- Claire Morgan (Ferrer Lab CRG, Barcelona)
- Mark Kalisz (CNIO, Madrid)
- Delphine Rolando
- Joan Ponsà
- Ignasi Morán (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Nikolina Nakic (GlaxoSmithKline)
- Ildem Akerman (University of Birmingham)
- Meritxell Rovira (CMRB Barcelona)
- Lorenzo Pasquali (IMPPC-IGTP, Barcelona)
- Santiago Rodríguez (UBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires)
- Loris Mularoni (IRB, Barcelona)
- Miguel Correa
- Myriam Solar (AstraZeneca)
- Joris van Arensbergen (NKI, Amsterdam) and GEN-X Biotech
- Takao Nammo (NCGM, Tokyo)
- Sylvia F. Boj (Hubrecht Organoid Technology, Utrecht)
- Mercè Martín (IRB, Barcelona)
- Joan Marc Servitja (IDIBAPS, Barcelona)
- Reini F. Luco (IGH, Montpellier)
- Marcelina Parrizas (IDIBAPS, Barcelona)
- Carina Cardalda