Miss Marisa Loach

Research Student

Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

marisa.loach@open.ac.uk

Biography

My PhD research involves reanalysing public single-cell omics data to explore how cells change in conditions such as heart disease and cancer. In addition to performing my own analyses, I have written tutorials for the Galaxy Training Network (GTN) to enable others to reuse the workflows I developed.

I chair the Galaxy Community Board (GCB) and am a member of the Galaxy Executive Board (GEB). In these roles, I ensure that the voices of users and scientific communities are heard within the Galaxy governance.

I am also an active member of the ELIXIR Galaxy and Single-Cell communities. During an ELIXIR Staff Exchange, I spent six months learning from the Galaxy-EU team at the University of Freiburg.

As a BioFAIR fellow, I am promoting the creation and reuse of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) workflows. My fellowship focuses on supporting users through the sometimes difficult transition from following tutorials to analysing their own datasets.

Projects

BioFAIR Fellowship

BioFAIR is delighted to announce the launch of our inaugural fellowship programme. BioFAIR Fellows will become ambassadors for excellence in research workflow and data management across the UK life science research community, and will contribute to the creation of the BioFAIR People Commons. This is an opportunity to be an early part of the newly established and ambitious BioFAIR programme, which aims to deliver a BioCommons infrastructure for the UK, including end-to-end FAIR research data management and analysis capabilities along with the necessary support and training for UK researchers working in the life sciences. A BioFAIR Fellowship will fund 20% of your time for one year to support ambassadorial activities within your institution, across your broader research domain and across the wider scientific community.