Dr Hugo Tavares

  • Associate Teaching Professor (Bioinformatics)
Dr Hugo Tavares

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Location

  • Centre for Research Informatics Training, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, United Kingdom, Email: hm533 at cam.ac.uk

About

Associate Teaching Professor (Bioinformatics)

Job Role

Hugo is responsible for developing and coordinating our "omics" curriculum, as well as recruiting and training instructors from across the University. 

Hours

Monday to Friday, office hours.

      

 

 

With a background in Biology, Hugo has worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst for many years.

Education:

2010-2014: PhD in Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

2006-2007: Masters in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

2002-2006: Undergraduate in Biology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Research

Hugo has research experience in population genomics, quantitative genetics and transcriptomics.

Teaching and supervision

 

2016 - present:

  • Managing bioinformatics software and pipelines - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Bulk RNA-seq analysis - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Protein structure modelling - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Introduction to the Unix command line - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Working on HPC clusters - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Single-cell RNA-seq analysis - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Variant calling and analysis from short-read sequencing - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Analysis of ChIP-seq data - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Quality Control in Sequencing Experiments - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Linear mixed effects models - Trainer
  • An Introduction to Machine Learning - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Part III Systems Biology - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Data Carpentry in R - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Introduction to R - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Bioinformatics for Biologists: An introduction to programming, analysis, and reproducibility - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Basic statistics and data handling - Training Lead, Trainer
  • Data Analysis and Visualisation in R - Training Lead, Trainer