Rhiannon here. I am a graduate student researcher at The Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health (CIDGOH) under the supervision of Dr. William Hsiao. I originally joined the lab with the intention of developing microbial genomic pipelines, but soon found myself falling head over heals into the rabbit hole of ontologies. While I still dabble in genomics related work on the side, my primary focus is the dataharmonizatoin and the curation and development of ontologies for public health outbreak investigations and surveillance.
- I'm currently working on ontologizing the CanCOGeN Contextual Data Specification, PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2-Contextual-Data-Specification, PHA4GE Contextual Data QC Tags Specification, GRDI AMR One Health Specification, and assisting in their application within the contextual data harmonization tool The DataHarmonizer.
- The aforementioned specifications are being housed in the Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO), where I also look forward to integrating future PhD thesis work.
- I previously worked as a data curator on the farm to fork food ontology FoodON and still regularly participate developer meetings, jummping in on the occasional project/issue when I have time.
- I'm always keen to collaborate with others and actively participate in the OBOFoundry community.
- Lastly, I am an advocate of FAIR Principles - Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets - and do my best to apply these principles in my work.
- Still here? Cool, thanks for that.