ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer is a Nigerian bioinformatician.

Career

Ebenezer is from southwestern Nigeria. He earned a Ph.D. from

Churchill College Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

at the University of Cambridge. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Wilfried Haerty at the

Earlham Institute Earlham Institute (EI, formerly The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)) is a life science research institute located at the Norwich Research Park (NRP), Norwich, England. EI's research is focused on exploring living systems by applying computationa ...

, and later moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Professional activities

While at EBI, Ebenezer served as the first president of the Euglena International Network, an effort to support omics research on

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. He also cofounded the African BioGenome Project, an effort to sequence the genomes of all African

eukaryotes Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bacte ...

References

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