I am currently interested in RdRp evolution and diversity as well as molecular biology of RNA viruses. I am scripting in Python and use other bioinformatic approaches to find and characterise new and novel viruses in different datasets.
Biography
Ingrida Olendraite is a virology researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she has also gained her PhD in Computational Molecular Virology (prof. Firth group). Her main research focus is novel RNA virus discovery and molecular biology. Before Cambridge, Ingrida studied Genetics of Human Disease at University College London (MSc) and Molecular Biology at Vilnius University (BA). For the BA project, Ingrida worked on RNA methylation (prof. Klimasauskas group, Institute of Biotechnology), while the MSc project was focusing on training artificial neural networks (Deep Learning) to make a model for protein binding to DNA while facilitating gene expression (prof. Luscombe group, The Francis Crick institute). During COVID-19 pandemic, Ingrida was invited to an advisory council for Lithuanian prime minister and initiated the SARS-CoV-2 sequencing project in Lithunia.
Publications
Identification of RNA Virus-Derived RdRp Sequences in Publicly Available Transcriptomic Data Sets.
Emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.620 with variant of concern-like mutations and deletions.
A case for a negative-strand coding sequence in a group of positive-sense RNA viruses
Mining Diverse and Novel RNA Viruses in Transcriptomic Datasets
The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2020.
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Solinviviridae
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Polycipiviridae
Discovery of three RNA viruses using ant transcriptomic datasets
Archaeal fibrillarin-Nop5 heterodimer 2′-O-methylates RNA independently of the C/D guide RNP particle
Polycipiviridae: A proposed new family of polycistronic picorna-like RNA viruses
Teaching and Supervisions
2023/2024:
- NST PartII BBS Bioinformatics Minor - Trainer
2022/2023:
- NST PartII BBS Bioinformatics Minor - Trainer
