Summary
Welcome I have studied Biology at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). I went on with a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics at the Unit of Evolutionary Genetics in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM). While it was still too early to work with high-throughput sequencers, I generated a substantial amount of sequence data with Sanger capillary sequencers and quickly had to rely on computers and programming to manage my data and analyse it. That's how I got interested in Computer Science and decided to learn how to do things the correct way (as opposed as just getting my work done). I started evening classes at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Namur (FUNDP). After my PhD, I started to work as a bioinformatician for DNAVision, a spin-off of the ULB, where I worked on microarray data and managed research and customer projects. With my education in CS and my work experience in a private company, my work and research interests focused on the design and implementation of rigorous and reproducible analyses work flows. These are the skills I am applying and improving at my current position at the Cambridge Centre For Proteomics and the EBI, where I work on organelle mass spectrometry experimental designs, repository submission and data analysis.
Contact details
Dr Laurent Gatto
Cambridge Centre For Proteomics
Cambridge System Biology Centre
Department of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
Tennis Court Road
Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
