ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer explained

ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer is a Nigerian bioinformatician.

Career

Ebenezer is from southwestern Nigeria. He earned a Ph.D. from Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.^[1] He worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Wilfried Haerty at the Earlham Institute,^[2] and later moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute.^[3]

Professional activities

While at EBI, Ebenezer served as the first president of the Euglena International Network, an effort to support omics research on euglenoids.^[4] He also cofounded the African BioGenome Project, an effort to sequence the genomes of all African eukaryotes.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Ebenezer . ThankGod . The genome of Euglena gracilis: Annotation, function and expression . 22 September 2017 . 10.17863/CAM.23157.
2. Web site: ThankGod Ebenezer Earlham Institute . www.earlham.ac.uk . 9 November 2023 . en.
3. News: Agaba . John . Scientists to sequence African species to safeguard biodiversity and secure food supplies . 9 November 2023 . Alliance for Science Blog . Alliance for Science . 14 February 2023.
4. News: Hatch . Victoria . Unleashing the biotechnology potential of euglenoids . 9 November 2023 . European Bioinformatics Institute . 22 November 2022 . en.
5. Makoni . Munyaradzi . African effort to sequence continent’s biodiversity seeks $1 billion over 10 years . ScienceInsider . 15 March 2022 . 10.1126/science.adb2028 . 9 November 2023.