Profile

I grew up in Toronto, Canada, where I did my lab-based PhD in molecular evolution. I then moved to Edinburgh University in Scotland to research the genetics of immunity in the aquatic model organism Daphnia. My research in Edinburgh consisted of a mixture of wet-lab and molecular biology and bioinformatics. After a decade at the University, I left academia to work as a bioinformatician at the diagnostics charity LifeArc. At LifeArc I became trained in project management. In 2018, my family made the move to Norwich, England where I am the programme manager for the work packages falling under the Earth Biogenome Project umbrella at the Earlham Institute.  Outside of work, I enjoy spending time exploring the natural world with my three kids. My pronouns are she/her

Project management is a fun job that includes a lot of different elements, including facilitating communication and transparency of work outputs amongst team members internal to EI and externally. By helping project teams to plan out a project early on, we are able to identify and work towards key milestones. I track the progress towards these milestones to identify project risks and set up processes to mitigate them. I am also responsible for forecasting and tracking the project budget spend and making adjustments as the project processes are refined.