Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
Hello Genome Detectives. Thank you again for your incredible efforts - we have posted an update on the project results tab. We are taking a break while we develop the next iteration of Genome Detectives, but have left you a data set here for practice only – PLEASE NOTE THESE DATA ARE ALREADY COMPLETE. If you are ready for more of a challenge then please check out our new 'Training Academy' website. To browse other active projects that still need your classifications, check out zooniverse projects.
The Team
Charlene Rodrigues
Charlene is a medical doctor who cares for children with infectious diseases. She is interested in how we can use genomics to better prevent and treat infectious diseases and to inform the decision-making by frontline clinical staff.
Holly Bratcher
Holly is a genetic epidemiologist who has worked in forensics and public health. She is interested in understanding how the genomes of infectious diseases change over time (evolution!) and what that change tells us about the biology of the bug.
Fran Colles
Fran is a microbiologist who has worked in veterinary, hospital and research labs. She is interested in working out how a food poisoning bacteria called Campylobacter is passed along the food chain, from animals to people.
Odile Harrison
Odile is a medical microbiologist with an interest in infectious diseases. Her research focuses on exploiting genome data to improve diagnostics, prevent infection through vaccination and fight antimicrobial resistance.
Keith Jolley
Keith is a bioinformatician with experience in developing software and database tools used to explore bacterial genetic diversity.
Margaret Varga
Margaret is a visual analytics specialist interested in transforming inherently non-visual data into intuitive visual presentation for interactive exploration, analysis and decision support of the complex genomic data.
Martin Maiden
Martin is Professor Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and has studied population biology and evolution of bacterial pathogens through DNA sequencing for over 30 years, with the objective of translating the insights obtained into benefits for human health.
Helen Spiers
Helen is Biomedical Research Lead of the Zooniverse and a CZI Imaging Scientist Fellow. Based at the Francis Crick Institute in London, Helen works with many research teams around the world to develop novel citizen science projects tackling a range of biomedical research questions. Helen also studies the phenomenon of citizen science, and is currently examining multiple aspects of volunteer experience across the Zooniverse. Prior to her current position, Helen completed a PhD in developmental epigenetics at King’s College London, worked as a Medical Writer for two years, and obtained a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
