Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé (Bioinformatics)
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My Objectives
- Promote data integration and knowledge management
- Manage multi-disciplinary projects in an innovative environment
- Coach and motivate, and to become a "facilitator" that will enhance the synergy between different groups and specialities, in an environment of constant challenge.
My Profile
I have 20 years experience in managing bioinformatics data at CEPH in France (for the first large-scale sequencing project); Généthon (France), where I built the database for the DNA biobank; then at the EBI (UK) with RHdb, an international repository for RH mapping data and finally at GeneProt in Switzerland, where I built proteomics databases.
Further Details
- 2005 CRS4, Sardinia, Italy
Head of Bioinformatics service group in the Bioinformatics Programme. Creation of a new bioinformatics service to give support to Sardinian research labs. - December 2000 - 2005 GeneProt Inc, Geneva, Switzerland
Head of Data Management, Database Development and Administration Group. I coordinated all database work in the Bioinformatics Department, interacted with the other teams in the department to integrate the databases in the bioinformatics workflow. GeneProt (2000-2005) was a life-science company using the very latest developments in protein technologies to improve the quality and speed of the drug discovery and development process. - September 1994 - November 2000 European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL/EBI), Hinxton, UK
Team Leader, Research and Development. Research interest: heterogeneous data management and databases integration. During this time, my group developed the first CORBA server for a biology database (May 1997). I collaborated as a database expert with international organisations in Europe and the USA and chaired the Genomics Map Working Group in the Object Management Group - Life Science Research Task-Force. We developed and maintained the Radiation Hybrid Database, an international database for RH mapping data. I also organised and coordinated international workshops. - 1990 - August 1994 Généthon, Paris, France
Head of the Database Development and Administration Team. I developed the databases for the management of the DNA biobank. We pioneered the WWW efforts at Généthon, creating the first web server for biology in France. Généthon is a research laboratory financed by the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM). - April 1987 - 1990 Centre d'Études du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), Paris, France
I worked there developing the applications for the first large-scale sequencing project in France. The CEPH is a research laboratory created in 1984 by Prof. Jean Dausset (Nobel Prize, Medicine and Physiology, 1980).
Education and Training
1986 Ph.D. in Seismology, University of Tokyo, Japan
1983 Ph.D. in Physics (Thèse de 3eme cycle en sciences physiques), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, Paris, France
1981 Master in Applied Mathematics (Maîtrise de Mathématiques et Applications Fondamentales), Université d'Orsay-Paris XI, Paris, France