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Affiliation: EMBL
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: patrick.hasenfeld@embl.de
Languages: English, German
Expertise: basics in python and r
Affiliation: University College London
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: emeline [dot] favreau [dot] 15 [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] co [dot] uk
Languages: English, French
Expertise: Bioinformatics, Evolution, R, genomics, transcriptomics
Affiliation: EMBL Heidelberg
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: lisanna.paladin [at] gmail.com
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish
Expertise: Programming languages (Python), Command-line computing, Data management and FAIR science, Software project management, Web technologies, Structural Biology, Proteomics and protein analysis, Computational Biology training
Affiliation: Stanford University
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: sp.holmes@gmail.com
Website: https://susan.su.domains/
Languages: English, French
Expertise: Biostatistics, Statistics, Computational Biology, Quantitative Microbial Ecology, R software, Microbiome, Data Science, Statistical Learning, Multi-omics
Affiliation: U. Sussex Alumnus
Timezone: Asia/Colombo
E-mail: research-support @ bow.st
Languages: English
Expertise: Computing Infrastructure (gcp, aws, docker, etc)
Affiliation: Kapoorlabs
Timezone: Europe/Paris
E-mail: varun.kapoor@kapoorlabs.org
Website: www.kapoorlabs.org
Languages: English
Expertise: Machine learning, deep learning, neural network, teaching, jupyter notebooks, python, Fiji, Java, computer programming
Affiliation: University College London
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: sandip.george [at] ucl.ac.uk
Languages: English, Malayalam, Hindi
Expertise: Dynamical systems, time series analysis, critical care data, stellar astrophysics, experience sampling, Fourier analysis, echo state networks, actigraphy data, fractal analysis
Affiliation: EMBL
Timezone: Europe/Rome
E-mail: francesco[dot]tabaro[at]embl[dot]it
Languages: English, Italian
Expertise: bulk and single cell RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and CUT&RUN, RRBS, data visualization, statistical modeling, Snakemake, Python, R, Bash, JavaScript, Slurm, high performance computation, Linux, git, CI/CD, Singularity, Jekyll, web development
Affiliation: LJMU
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata
E-mail: yashmahendra22@gmail.com
Languages: English, Hindi
Expertise: Kafka, Spark, PyTorch, Postgres, Python, Django
Graph Neural networks, Recommendation systems, Knowledge graphs
Affiliation: Princeton University
Timezone: America/Chicago
E-mail: pivarski@princeton.edu
Website: English and written (non-verbal) French
Languages: English and written (non-verbal) French
Expertise: Python/NumPy, interface with C/C++, performance optimization, parallel processing, basic GPU programming (Nvidia CUDA), functional programming (immutable data structures, Scala), basic git/GitHub, Linux commandline, data analysis techniques (exploratory EDA, regression, clustering, decision trees, basic machine learning/ML), statistics (confidence intervals, hypothesis testing), particle physics.
Affiliation: EPCC
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: a [dot] jackson [at] epcc [dot] ed [dot] ac [dot ] uk
Languages: English
Expertise: High performance computing, parallel computing, machine learning, GPU programming, FPGAs, data analysis including Python and R.
Affiliation: University College London
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: d (.) perez-suarez {at} ucl (.) ac (.) uk
Languages: English, Spanish, Italian
Expertise: Bash, Python, Git/GitHub, static blog generators (jekyll, nikola), teaching, solar physics,
Affiliation: EMBL
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: bartosz [dot] bartmanski [at] embl.de
Languages: English, Polish
Expertise: ODEs, PDEs, Modelling, Transcriptomics, Python, R, bash, C++
Affiliation: EMBO
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: torn_silty0l@icloud.com
Languages: Spanish, English, German
Expertise: Python, Pandas, data visualization with Altair, basic stats knowledge, web full-stack development, Django, flask, Vuejs, SQL
Affiliation: University of Potsdam
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: kliesch [at] uni-potsdam.de
Languages: German, English
Expertise: Developmental Psychology, Statistics, Experimental Design, R, Mixed Models
Affiliation: IBCh RAS
Timezone: Europe/Moscow
E-mail: aozalevsky@ibch.ru
Languages: English, Russian
Expertise: structural biology, molecular modeling, HPC, resops, python
Affiliation: University of California Davis
Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
E-mail: mflaporte@ucdavis.edu
Website: https://github.com/laporpe
Languages: English
Expertise: R, Python, Git, RStudio, Genomic Data, Predictive Modeling, OpenRefine, Jupyter Notebooks
Affiliation: Uni. of Bristol (Visiting research) - RemotelyGreen SA - Independent
Timezone: Europe/Brussels
E-mail: mr [dot] krikler+rse [at] gmail [dot] com
Website: https://krikler.be
Languages: English, Portuguese, French
Expertise: python, c++, javascript, bash, machine learning, pre-processing, visualisation, particle physics, git, simulations
Affiliation: UCL
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: s [dot] keating [at] ucl.ac.uk
Languages: English
Expertise: Computational Systems Biology Standards; C++;
Affiliation: University of Washington
Timezone: America/Vancouver
E-mail: vms16 [at] uw [dot ]edu
Languages: English, rusty Russian
Expertise: Experience with image/video processing and analysis, time series analysis. General data science. Machine Learning & Computer Vision. Python, Data Workflows. Teaching Software/Data Carpentry or programming to beginners.
Affiliation: The Carpentries
Timezone: America/New_York
E-mail: maneesha[at]carpentries[dot]org
Languages: English
Expertise: Bash, Python, Pandas, Django, Git/GitHub, static blog generators (jekyll, nikola), teaching, limited web design (html/js/css)
Affiliation: Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: joacorapela@gmail.com
Website: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~rapela/
Languages: English, Spanish
Expertise: statistics, machine learning, data analysis, neuroscience, computer scinece
Affiliation: UCL
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: alessandro [dot] felder [at] gmail.com
Languages: English, German, French, Italian
Expertise: Python, Java, C++, image processing and analysis, good coding practice, napari, imagej, data standards, open science
Affiliation: UCL
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: n[dot]sen[at]ucl[dot]ac[dot]uk
Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi
Expertise: python, computational biology, structural biology, machine learning (preliminary), protein structure visualisation and various structure related work, protein docking, molecular dynamics simulations, protein-ligand studies, protein-protein interactions
Affiliation: The Carpentries
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: tbyhdgs[at]gmail[dot]com
Languages: English
Expertise: (meta)genomics sequencing data analysis, Bash, Python, Git/GitHub, Jekyll, regular expressions
Affiliation: University College London (UCL)
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: kugler[dot]elisabeth[at]gmail.com
Website: www.elisabethKugler.com
Languages: English, German
Expertise: optical fluorescence microscopy (confocal, lightsheet, AiryScan), bio-image analysis, data, data science, data visualization, biology, workflow design, data understanding, image enhancement, Imagej/Fiji, Matlab;
Affiliation: University of Sussex
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: a.dewar@sussex.ac.uk
Website: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p281168-alex-dewar
Languages: English
Expertise: Python, MATLAB, C++, computational neuroscience, insect neuroscience
Affiliation: University of Amsterdam
Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam
E-mail: j _dot_ goedhart _at_ uva _dot_ nl
Website: https://github.com/JoachimGoedhart
Languages: English
Expertise: Fluorescence Microscopy, Data visualization, ImageJ, R/ggplot2, web apps (R/Shiny), R Markdown.
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Timezone: America/Chicago
E-mail: sinitcyn {at} wisc {dot} edu
Website: https://kodomo.fbb.msu.ru/~sinitcyn/
Languages: English, Russian
Expertise: Proteomics, MaxQuant/Perseus, Next-Generation Sequencing, Computer Science, Competitive Programming, Python, C#, Java, C/C++
Affiliation: The Carpentries
Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
E-mail: ebecker[at]carpentries[dot]org
Languages: English, Hebrew, American Sign Language
Expertise: Bash, R, Git/GitHub, regular expressions, genomics sequencing data analysis, microbiology, education research
Affiliation: The Carpentries
Timezone: Europe/Paris
E-mail: francois.michonneau@gmail.com
Website: https://francoismichonneau.net
Languages: English, French
Expertise: R, tidyverse, Biodiversity data, Phylogenetics, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GitHub, Docker
Affiliation: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: balthasar [dot] reuter [at] ecmwf [dot] int
Languages: English, German
Expertise: Python, Fortran, C++, high-performance computing (HPC), GPU programming, numerical methods for PDEs
Affiliation: EMBL
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: guido [dot] barzaghi [at] embl [dot] org
Languages: English
Expertise: R, bioconductor, Git/GitHub, bash, nextflow, statistics, NGS data analysis, molecular biology
Affiliation: University of Sussex
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: Wads01+exp [..at..] gmail [..dot..] com
Languages: English
Expertise: Machine learning, software engineering, evolutionary robotics
Affiliation: UCL
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: namid[dot]stillman[at]gmail.com
Languages: English
Expertise: Python, Matlab, simulation, simulation-based inference, generative models, cell migration, nanomedicine
Affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Timezone: Europe/Berlin
E-mail: alves.rjc@gmail.com
Website: https://bio-it.embl.de/renato-alves/
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Expertise: (meta)genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, data analysis, data visualization, python, R, bash, git, high performance computing (slurm), django, jekyll, and other web development technologies, linux at sysadmin level.
Affiliation: University College London (UCL)
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: jonas (dot) hartmann (at) ucl.ac.uk
Website: https://github.com/WhoIsJack
Languages: English, German
Expertise: python, biology, microscopy, imagej/fiji, bio-image analysis, data science, data visualization, machine learning
Affiliation: ETH Zürich
Timezone: Europe/Zurich
E-mail: tim [dot] troendle [at] usys.ethz.ch
Website: https://cp.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.tim-troendle.html
Languages: English, German
Expertise: Geospatial, time series, and categorical data analysis and visualisation (Python stack); statistics (Python); high performance computing (LSF); scientific workflows (Snakemake, make); reproducibility (conda); version control (Git)
Affiliation: University College London
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: naureen.ghani.18@ucl.ac.uk
Languages: English
Expertise: computational neuroscience
Affiliation: MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences
Timezone: Europe/London
E-mail: liz [dot] ing-simmons [at] imperial.ac.uk
Languages: English
Expertise: genomics sequencing data analysis, Hi-C, scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, R, Python, Snakemake, Git/GitHub