Irilenia Nobeli

Irilenia Nobeli

Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics

People

Irilenia Nobeli

Group Leader

Nick Underhill

Postdoc

Munishikha Kalia

Postdoc

Bolaji Coker

PhD student

Harry Boutselakis

PhD student

Current members from taught courses

MSc/MRes students

  • Lena Przemylska MSc Bioinformatics
  • Evita Otigbah MSc Bioinformatics
  • Nathan Langman MSc Bioinformatics
  • Melika Adim MSc Bioinformatics
  • Beth Hearle MSc Bioinformatics
  • Eirini Vafeiadi MSc Bioinformatics
  • Anna Yerkhova MSc Bioinformatics
  • Ieva Ratkeviciute MSc Bioinformatics
  • Ollie Foggitt MSc Bioinformatics
  • Ann-Marie de Sousa MSc Bioinformatics
  • Helen Woodward MSc Bioinformatics
  • Ridima Thapa MSc Bioinformatics
  • Alexandra Pacanins Colban MSc Bioinformatics
  • David Kinna MSc Bioinformatics
  • Roberto Bonnelly MSc Bioinformatics
  • Georgios Tsoukalas MSc Bioinformatics

    • Alumni

    Phd alumni

  • Jennifer Stiens, Bloomsbury Colleges / LIDo PhD student (2020-2024)
  • Krzysztof Szkop, Part-time PhD student (2013-2019).
  • Kavin Abelak, Bloomsbury PhD student (2014-2018), first supervisor: Dr Bishop-Bailey at the Royal Vet College
  • Jan Czarnecki , BBSRC CASE PhD student (2010-2014; industrial sponsor: Unilever), first supervisor: Dr A. Shepherd - Text mining to facilitate metabolic pathway reconstructions.
  • Anathe Patschull, WT rotation PhD student (autumn 2009) and WT PhD student, (2010/2013) - Computational and experimental studies of riboswitches (first supervisor: Dr Tracey Barrett).
  • Paul Ashford, BBSRC CASE PhD student, BBK (2008/2011) - industrial supervisor: Dr A. Alex (Pfizer Ltd), second academic supervisor: Dr Mark Williams

    • PhD rotations/others

  • Kamila Kamuda, Wellcome Trust rotation PhD student (summer 2019)
  • Liam Martin, Wellcome Trust rotation PhD student (Spring 2017)
  • Luba Prout, BBSRC LIDo rotation PhD student (Spring 2016)
  • Peter Cooke, MRC rotation PhD student (2015-2016), second supervisor: Dr Filipe Cabreiro (UCL)
  • Matthew Colledge, MRC CASE (with Pfizer/Neusentis) PhD student (2013-), first supervisor: Professor Bonnie Wallace
  • Florence Thomas, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2013) - Virtual screening for polymerisation inhibitors (with Dr Bibek Gooptu)
  • Benjy Lichman, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2012) - Protein binding promiscuity (with Prof. David Moss)
  • Katie Oliver, WT rotation PhD student (summer 2012) - Re-annotation of the Chlamydia proteins (with Dr Richard Hayward)
  • Anna Heddell, WT rotation PhD student (winter/spring 2010) - Computational screening for inhibitors of the tuberculosis resuscitation factors (with Prof. Nick Keep)
  • Jonathan Myles, part-time PhD student, BBK (2008) - first supervisor: Dr A. Shepherd

    • MSc/MRes alumni

  • Eliza Naismith MSc Bioinformatics (2024/25)
  • Aswini Sivasankaran MSc Bioinformatics (2023/24)
  • Tamara Hill MSc Bioinformatics (2022/24)
  • Luke Charalambou MSc Bioinformatics (2022/24)
  • Alexander Waters MSc Bioinformatics (2022/23)
  • Sarah N'Djomon MSc Bioinformatics (2021/23)
  • Javier Lopez Segura MSc Bioinformatics (2020/21)
  • Laura O'Neill MSc Bioinformatics (2020/21)
  • Amber Hilton MSc Bioinformatics (2021)
  • Wing-Kin Chan MSc Bioinformatics (2021/22)
  • Manthos Pitoulias MSc Bioinformatics (2020/21)
  • Yen Yi Tan MSci Applied Medical Sciences, UCL (2019/20)
  • Faizan Shaikh MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019/20)
  • Laura Phillips MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019/20)
  • Nini Nguyen MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019-2021)
  • Michelle Namuyaba MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019/20)
  • Florence Lai MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology
  • Emmanuelle Lacotte MRes Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019-2022)
  • Alessia Boiti MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2019-2021)
  • Safa Anwar MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2018-2020)
  • Chelsea Wescott MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2017-2019)
  • Abdulvahab Kharadi MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2017-2019)
  • Bhavraj Singh Chana MSc Bio-business, BBK (2018/2019)
  • Rosanna Joyce MRes Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2017-2018)
  • Margherita Martorana MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2017-2018)
  • Alina Ozuna MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology (2017-2018)
  • Akash Patel, MSc Bio-business, BBK (2017/2019); Digital health in cancer
  • Aine Fairbrother, MSc Bioinformatics, BBK (2016/2017, FT)
  • Jenifer Suntharalingham, MSc Bio-business, BBK (2016/2017)
  • Gabriele Nocchi, MSc Bioinformatics, BBK (2015/2017, PT)
  • Dolapo Ajayi, MSc Bioinformatics, BBK (2015/2017, PT)
  • Richard Acton, MSc Bioinformatics, BBK (2015/2016)
  • Alexander Talbot, MSc Analytical Chemistry, BBK (2016/2017)
  • Doriano Liberto, MRes, BBK (2015/16)
  • Prathana Kalanithy, MRes, BBK (2015/16)
  • Liam Paul, MRes, BBK (2014)
  • Joanne Humphries, MSc, BBK (2013)
  • Rob Collins, part-time MRes, BBK (2013, 2014) - with Dr Tine Arnvig (UCL)
  • Yolanda Dopico, part-time MSc, BBK (2013, 2014) - with Dr David Prieto-Marino (LSHTM)
  • Inbar Levi, full-time MRes, BBK (2013, 2014) - with Dr David Prieto-Marino (LSHTM)
  • Kavin Abelak, full-time MRes, BBK (2013, 2014) - with Dr Tine Arnvig (UCL)
  • Bojan Cvijan, part-time MSc, BBK (2013, 2014)
  • Sam Coulson, full-time MSc, BBK (2013)
  • Joe Southan, full-time MSc, BBK (2013)
  • Andrejus Abrosimovas, part-time MSc, BBK (2012,2013)
  • Manojit Paul, part-time MSc, BBK (2012,2013)
  • Paul Golby, part-time MSc, BBK (2011,2012)
  • Jaytanya Rajachandrasekar, MSc, BBK (2011) - with Dr Karen Abraham and Dr A. Shepherd
  • Christian Spiteri, MSc, BBK (2011)
  • Jan Czarnecki, part-time MSc, BBK (2010)
  • Alice Povia, MSc, BBK (2010) - Investigation of surface binding pockets among sets of homologous protein structures
  • Danai Fimereli, MSc, BBK (2010) -
  • Khaleda Begum, MSc, BBK (2010) - with Dr A. Shepherd
  • Rosalind Jack, MSc, BBK (2010) - with Dr A. Shepherd and Unilever (Metabolic network reconstructions for Malassezia organisms)
  • Jonathan Hurwitz, part-time MSc, BBK (2008/2009)- first supervisor: Dr A. Shepherd (Life in extreme environments)
  • Michael Fox, MRes, BBK (2007) - with Dr A. Shepherd )
  • Dimitris Mekras, MSc, BBK (2006) - with Dr A. Shepherd metabolome 3d)
  • Fatai Ogunlayi, MSc, BBK (2006) - with Dr A. Shepherd text mining for protein functions)
  • Ling Zhu, MRes, York (2006) - Comparison of cognate and cognate-like ligand interactions in the PDB

    • Interns/Undergraduates

  • Gayatri Namburi Summer intern (July 2025), BSc Natural Sciences, Birkbeck
  • Zheng Nim Summer intern (June/July 2018), undergraduate at UCL
  • Aygoustina Economou Summer intern (June/July 2018), undergraduate at King's College London
  • Dr Hilary Crowe, BBK final year undergraduate (2017/2018)- Trancriptomic signatures of atherosclerosis (with Dr D. Bishop-Bailey, RVC)
  • Samantha Thompson, intern (2016-) - Circular RNAs
  • Zirui Xu, summer intern (2015) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
  • Benjamin Yang, summer intern (2015) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
  • Yamuranai Diya, BBK final year undergraduate (2015)-
  • Giacomo Proietti, six-month Erasmus intern from the University of Perugia (2014) - Simulations of CYP2J2
  • Rima Cesnaitw, BBK final year undergraduate (2014) - The link between autism and the immune system
  • Viktoria Kalna, summer intern (2014) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
  • Peter Cooke, summer intern (2014) - Molecular mechanisms of autism
  • Dardan Uka, UCL final year undergraduate (literature project) - Alanine racemase in Chlamydia
  • Jasper Koehorst, Masters (Wageningen University, Holland) internship (March 2012- August 2012) - Metabolic pathways in Chlamydia
  • Krzysztof Szkop, Undergraduate internship (Summer 2011) - Catalytically promiscuous proteins
  • Wei Nee Lim, Undergraduate internship (Summer 2009) - COX/LOX inhibition