Description: Dr Georgina Samaha is a bioinformatician at the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Genomics and is working to make bioinformatics more accessible to researchers by developing accessible bioinformatic workflows and other resources for the Australian life science community. She provides training to support life scientists in gaining access essential computational resources and performing bioinformatics analyses in HPC environments. She is a member of the Australian BioCommons training network.

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Expertise academic: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Genetics, Animal science

Expertise technical: High Performance Computing, Galaxy, Bash, python, R

Fields: Gene Expression (incl. Microarray and other genome-wide approaches), Genomics, Genome Structure and Regulation, Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)

Interest: Improving accessibility of bioinformatics for life scientists, Bioinformatics in context of high performance computing

Language: English