Nuno Saraiva-Agostinho is a Scientific Programmer at Ensembl, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute developing open-source software to manage open-access biological data that benefits the research community.

His curiosity for bioinformatics first sparked during the programming lessons in his Bachelor in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal). To complement his biological knowledge, he delved deeper into computer science with a Master in Informatics (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal). He recently finished his PhD in Bioinformatics (Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal) with a focus on creating open-source web apps and R packages for alternative splicing analysis and visualisation. It was also during his PhD that he started to firmly believe that collaborative open data and intuitive open-source software is necessary to drive scientific progress, one of the reasons why he is now working as a Scientific Programmer in Ensembl (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK).

Nathan Cunningham is a Director of Platform Solutions at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He is currently looking after the Pipeline Solutions portfolio on an interim basis. He has over 20 years of experience in research, IT and data, and senior management. He has held positions at various organisations, including the British Antarctic Survey, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Norwich Bioscience Institutes (BBSRC) and the University of Sheffield. In his current role, he leads the digital infrastructure investments and platform solutions at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. He is also a Wellcome Sanger Institute’s senior leadership team member.

Cunningham's career has focused on developing and managing compex research and enterprise infrastructure and services for scientific research. He has a particular interest in big data and cloud computing, and has worked on a number of projects to develop and implement new technologies for data management and analytics.

Cunningham is also a strong advocate for open science and data sharing. He has worked on a number of projects to develop and implement open data policies and practices, and has published on the topic of data citation and publication.

In addition to his work in research IT and data management, Cunningham is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and the BCS The Chartered Institute for IT. He is also a recipient of a number of research grants, including grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the European Commission.

Disha Lodha is a Bioinformatician at Ensembl Metazoa with over 2 years of experience at EBI. Her work primarily revolves around data processing and integration using diverse bioinformatics workflows in collaboration with VEuPathDB. She thrives on the challenges this field offers and is dedicated to continually refining team workflows to provide a seamless experience for the scientific community. 

Disha completed her master's degree in Precision Medicine: Genomics and Analytics at the University of Leeds where she refined her analytical skills. 

Ksenia Krasheninnikova is bioinformatician at Tree of Life Assembly team in Wellcome Sanger Institute working on genome assemblies and Nextflow pipelines. 

Eerik Aunin has a PhD in cell biology and an MSc in bioinformatics and has been working as a Senior Bioinformatician in the Wellcome Sanger Institute since 2018.

Damon is a bioinformatician working in the Tree of Life Project. His main role is the creation of pipelines to aid and improve the manual curation of genomic assemblies.

Priyanka is a Principal Bioinformatician working in the Tree of Life Project, where she oversees Nextflow development and BIOSCAN data reporting. Additionally, she also facilitates the Workflows Community on the Wellcome Genome Campus.

Matthieu Muffato leads the Informatics Infrastructure team of the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, who oversees the implementation of assembly and analysis pipelines for biodiversity projects.

Matiss is a distinguished researcher, bioinformatician, and software engineer at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. With a PhD focused on medicine, and bioinformatics, he's renowned for his pioneering development of analytics pipelines for identification of skin aging biomarkers, resulting in multiple patents. Proficient in various programming languages, Matiss excels in analyzing intricate biological datasets, from scRNA to proteomics. His primary expertise encompasses pipeline development, machine learning, deep learning, and multi-omics studies in human genetics, transcriptomics and proteomics.

Likhitha is a bioinformatics developer supporting variation annotations for Ensembl.

Simon is a Principal Bioinformatician at the Cancer Research UK Cancer Biomarker Centre, primarily working on detecting and subtyping cancer from blood samples. He is a member of the Maintainers team on nf-core and a Nextflow Ambassador.

Peter leads the Informatics Support Group (ISG) which provides the high performance compute (HPC) environments for Sangers scientific research teams. Our team investigates new and upcoming technical solutions that will drive our HPC platforms for tomorrow. In this way we can continue to keep abreast of the research challenges presented.