Helen Parkinson

Dr Helen Parkinson Leads the Knowledge Management Section at EMBL-EBI and is an EMBL Senior Scientist. With her faculty colleagues Melissa Harrison, Henning Hermjakob and Ugis Sarkans she provides essential data resources for accessing knowledge from publications and experimental data. She leads the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, delivering genomic resources, disease model data and semantic interoperability tools.

Prior to joining EMBL-EBI, Helen was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester, where she worked on the genetic basis of the genetic diseases Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, Hyphophatasia and examined synteny at human chromosomes 7 and 12. Her PhD investigated the temperature compensation of circadian rhythms in Drosophila with Professor Bambos Kyriacou. If she ever goes back to the bench it will be to work on an organism where forward and reverse genetics are tractable.