Moved to Cambridge

I recently move to Cambridge, to start my work at the European Bioinformatics Institute. I had been to Cambridge before and EBI was on my top list places to work after my PhD, which I carried out in Dundee. Sometimes your wishes become true and here I am! Photo by…

I seem to be doing good at poster sessions

I seem to be doing good at poster sessions firstly because I got selected for oral poster presentation at the ISMB/ECCB 2015 conference in Dublin. That was in addition to a travel fellowship generously awarded by ECCB. As if that was not enough, now I got a poster prize by…

Organized the first ever TEDx University of Dundee

Me and a bunch of other students and staff members of the University of Dundee organized the first ever TEDx University of Dundee. Together with my buddy Thiago, my main task was to design and develop the event’s website and organize ticket sale. The event was a great success and…

Paper on new methods to predict 14-3-3-binding sites out!

After many months of hard work, the day is here! Our new paper on methods to predict 14-3-3-binding sites is out in Bioinformatics Journal. This project originated as a collaboration between the Barton Group and the MacKintosh Group on the quest for improving the quality of predictions on 14-3-3-binding sites.…

Computational Biology now in the Discovery Centre

The day has come and we are now well settled in the brand new Discovery Centre. One of Mike Ferguson's many legacies to @DundeeUniv - new Discovery Centre opens #BalloonDrop pic.twitter.com/QB8aZF3zjJ— Gordon Simpson (@ggsimpsonrna) October 1, 2014 There were balloons, speeches and most importantly now I own a shiny new…