Research Seminar: Abraham Gihawi and Sean Zheng

The Genomics England Research Seminar series is a season of events held to demonstrate the best research from Genomics England and our partners. They started in October 2018, and are monthly, free-to-attend evenings of talks presented by Research Network members on the latest research being performed on the 100,000 Genomes Project data from our academic community (Research Network), commercial partners (Discovery Forum), COVID-19 analysis and Genomics England research on other cohorts.

This month's seminar speakers will be:

Abraham Gihawi - 'Microbes in Cancer: Trick or Treat?'

Abraham Gihawi is a research fellow in the cancer genetics laboratory at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). He undertook his PhD in computational biology under the supervision of Professor Daniel Brewer, benchmarking and applying pipelines for identifying microbes in human tissue whole genome sequence data. This included searching for microbes in the 100,000 Genomes Project. More recently he has focused on bacteria and viruses associated with prostate cancer which is now the topic of his current position.

Sean Zheng - 'Evaluation of polygenic score for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the general population and across clinical settings'

Sean is a BHF-funded Clinical Research PhD Fellow working at Imperial College London. His work focuses on the genomics and transcriptomics of cardiomyopathy, leveraging the power of population genetics to generate and evaluate genetic risk scores, discover novel disease-causing genes, and identify the molecular and cellular aetiology of these conditions.

About the research seminars

The seminars will be held on the last Tuesday of each month at 2 to 3pm. These will be online sessions open to everyone and free to attend, we hope to have representation from across the Research Network, Discovery Forum and 100,000 Genomes Project participants as well as anyone else who would be interested in joining.

For updates on the seminars including announcements and speakers please follow the Genomics England twitter page. You can watch all previous Research Seminars on the Genomics England YouTube channel.

If you would like to present your research from the Genomics England Research Environment at one of these events please get in touch with the Research Management team at [email protected] and if you intend to publish on this research please include this so that we can publicise your paper on our Publications page.