{"id":14856,"date":"2018-11-26T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:59:50","slug":"welcome-sarah-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/lab-matters\/welcome-sarah-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome: Sarah Butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Sarah Butcher joined EMBL-EBI to lead the recently formed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/about\/people\/sarah-butcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Software Development and Operations (SDO)<\/a> team in the Technical Services Cluster. Her team aims to develop, adapt and operate software that supports the ever-evolving needs of biological data service operators and users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I trained as a biologist and did my PhD at the National Institute of Medical Research in London. There, I trained as a cellular immunologist working on mouse models of flu. After this, I did a postdoc on virology at the NERC Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology in Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I worked on a set of viruses that are notorious today \u2013 the noroviruses, associated with \u2018winter vomiting disease\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: How did you get into bioinformatics?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>During my first postdoc, I had to learn to use a clunky connection system, which allowed us to search what used to be known as \u2018the EMBL database\u2019 \u2013 today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/ena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)<\/a>. That was the first time I really used computers in my research. During my PhD I remember doing multiple sequence alignments on squared paper, because that\u2019s all we had access to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>I soon realised that using a computing system to analyse my data was a very handy skill to have, and I started helping others in my institute to do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, I started as a wet-lab biologist who was frustrated by computers and ended up launching the bioinformatics service at Imperial College London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: What does your current role entail?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Software Development and Operations team builds and adapts software for EMBL-EBI, improving access to internal services such as resource management and long-term file archiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It contributes expertise to internal and external projects in areas such as authentication, dataset distribution, and cloud deployment. It\u2019s quite a big team of software developers, systems administrators and DevOps engineers working collaboratively with EMBL-EBI teams, and external project-based collaborators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also support external projects such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humancellatlas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Cell Atlas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bioexcel.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BioExcel<\/a> 2 and a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elixir-europe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ELIXIR<\/a> implementation studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: What are you hoping to achieve?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like to use my experience in bioinformatics and service provision to help bridge the gap between the people who develop and maintain EMBL-EBI data resources and the researchers who use them, within and outside the institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As someone who has sat in all areas \u2013 frustrated user, researcher, software producer &nbsp;and service provider \u2013 I\u2019d like to think that I can assist communications on all sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m particularly excited about drawing on the user experience (UX) expertise at EMBL-EBI, because it\u2019s an excellent resource that I haven\u2019t had access to previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: Why did you choose EMBL-EBI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL-EBI is a go-to place for bioinformatics in Europe, so people tend to gravitate towards it. I\u2019m looking forward to working in such a bespoke environment with access to cutting-edge facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a practical basis, I\u2019ve spent 16 years with a crazy commute; in fact, for the past six years, I\u2019ve been passing EMBL-EBI on my way to work and back. I can\u2019t believe I can finally swap a four-hour commute for a short cycle ride to work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>EMBL-EBI is a go-to place for bioinformatics in Europe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: What\u2019s your advice for someone who\u2019s thinking of applying for a technical role at EMBL-EBI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Get in touch and have a chat because we might just have a role for you! It\u2019s a great place to hone your skills using cutting-edge technologies in a big data environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: What\u2019s the best advice you\u2019ve ever received?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Get some sleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q: What inspires you?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Curiosity and the pleasure of talking to others and trying to understand what they need. 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