DrFrances Pearl
Associate Professor in Bioinformatics (Biochemistry)
School of Life Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-8210-4393
- Associate Professor in Bioinformatics (Biochemistry)School of Life Sciences
- +44 (0)1273 876631 Ext.6631 (Work)
BIO
After my PhD I spent 7 years as the CATH database manager at UCL. The CATH database classifies protein structural domains into structural and evolutionary families. I ran the CATH update team and developed algorithms to maintain the CATH database.
Following a career break, I was awarded a Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship hosted at ICR and funded by the MRC, to develop the MoKCa database that analyses cancer associated mutations.
I started the bioinformatics lab in 2013. Full List of Current and past group members can be found here
Group Members
Adnan Cinar
Biniam Haile
Cathy Wooller
Natalie Goel
Ayoola Olojede
Alina Morozova
Andrew Levy
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Co-Community Lead for Data and Sample ReuseCancer Research UK, Data Community Support Unit (DCSU), United Kingdom1 Jan 2024
- Deputy Academic Lead (Sussex)BBSRC SoCoBio Doctotal Training Programme, United Kingdom1 Oct 2022
- Director of Doctoral StudiesUniversity of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, Brighton, United Kingdom1 Oct 2018 - 31 Aug 2024
- Daphne Jackson FellowInstitute of Cancer Research, Cancer Therapeutics, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 2011 - 30 Jun 2013
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- EACR AmbassadorEuropean Association for Cancer Research, United Kingdom1 Jan 2025
DEGREES
- PhD Biochemistry (Structural Bioinformatics)University College London, London, United Kingdom
- BSc Chemistry (Hons) 1st ClassUMIST, Manchester, UK
CERTIFICATIONS
- PGCertHEUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom30 Jun 2016
- Higher Education Mental Health First Aid ChampionMHFA1 Nov 2019
- Fellow of the Higher Education AcademyAdvance HE (Higher Education Academy)1 Nov 2016
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
- 3 Good Health and Well Being