We were impressed with the amount of strong applications to our latest round of seed corn funding and are very pleased to announce this year’s JGI Seed corn fund winners:
- Sarah Sullivan and Piotr Slowinski for their project ‘Social movement differences and risk of psychosis: Data-driven approaches for mental health diagnostics’
- Agnieszka Bierzynska & Mark Rogers for their project ‘Developing computational tools for analysis of exome and genome data in highly phenotyped rare disease cohorts’
- Dima Damen for her project ‘EPIC-KITCHENS 2018 Dataset – JGI Sponsorship for Large-Scale Dataset’
- Andrew Dowsey, Andrew Davidson, Kate Heesom, David Matthews, Christoph Wuelfing & David Lee for their project ‘Enabling advanced analytics for all users of the proteomics facility’
- Massimo Antognozzi & Matthew Avison for their project ‘Development of machine learning algorithms for antimicrobial resistance testing’
- Fernando Sanchez-Vizcaino, Kristen Reyher, Andrew Dowsey and Jon Massey for their project ‘Fostering collaborations with UK livestock diagnostic laboratories to integrate data sources on antimicrobial resistance into a multi-use data resource’
- Luke Western and Zhe Sha for their project ‘Exploiting big data for greenhouse gas emissions estimation using INLA’
- Naoki Masuda and Mark Viney for their project ‘Immune response networks in wild mice’
Additionally, we have agreed to support the following workshops:
- Kate Hendry and Martyn Tranter for a workshop on ‘Iso-Glace: Novel isotope studies in glaciated environments’
- Song Liu for a workshop on ‘Structural change-point detection in high dimensional gene expression profiling sequence’
Work is beginning on the projects and progress will be presented at the JGI Showcase event on 3 July 2018.