Hunt, Ela, Dr

Dr Ela Hunt was a Marie Curie Fellow hosted by the GlobIS group from June 01 2006 to June 30 2008.
In May 2008, Ela was at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, UK. >>
On July 01 2008, she took up a position as a Lecturer in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. >>
In 2009, Ela returned to the ETH Zurich and is now Deputy Project Manager, SyBIT. >>

Publications >>

Editing of Workshop and Forum Proceedings for CAiSE'08, June 16-20 2008, Montpellier

BPMDS'08, BUSITAL'08, EMMSAD'08, EOMAS'08, GRCIS'08, MDISIS'08, MoDISE-EUS'08, ReMOD'08, CAiSE-DC'08, CAiSE'08 Forum

Selected Talks or Demos

(1) VLDB07 demo POSTER. (2) BioXMash, Integrative Bioinformatics, Ghent, Sept 2007, a one-page summary, and a blog comment. (3) A public lecture at NeSC Edinburgh, May 1st 2008. >>, view webcast. (4) At DILS'08: demo and flash presentation SemanticBioXMash, and Joanna Jakubowska's paper presentation and demo poster on CartoonPlus and user studies with VisGenome.

Software

Peer Review, Editorial Activities and Organisation

PhD supervision and collaborations, 2006-2008

(1) Joanna Jakubowska, genome visualisation, collaboration with Matthew Chalmers. (2) Thomas Bocek and Fabio Hecht, fast approximate searching in text and biological sequences, FastSS, collaboration with Burkhard Stiller. (3) Collaboration with Zohra Bellahsene and her PhD students Khalid Saleem and Fabien Duchateau at LIRMM, Montpellier. (4) Nadia Anwar, Taxonomy databases, collaboration with Rod Page. (5) Collaboration with Patrick Ziegler PhD (Dr. Inform.) in semantic data integration

Past students

Susan Fairley PhD, Micro array probe mapping for the rat Affymetrix chip, using a relational index to the rat genome, 2007, now at Ensembl
Caroline Bösinger Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH, diploma thesis: Adding XML summaries to Genome Visualisation, 2007
Mikko De Nardo Dipl. Ing. Betriebs- und Produktionswissenschaften ETH, semester project: Service Oriented Paradigms in Collaborative Manufacturing, 2007
Andy Jones PhD, Data standards for functional genomics, 2005, now lecturer at Liverpool, Proteomics and Functional Genomics Group, the Faculty of Veterinary Science
Eilidh Grant MSc, Treebolic Visualisation of Lice Taxonomies, 2005
Dr Giorgia Riboldi MScIT, A functional genomics database, 2005
K S Patil MSc, XML cleaning, 2005
Torben Broemstrup MRes in Bioinformatics, Sequence Searching, 2003
Kenneth Jackson BSc, Tree Searcher, 2003
Hunter Bryce BSc, Visualising Genome Comparisons, 2003
Evangelos Pafilis MRes, SNP Database and Visualisation, 2003
Dr Neil Hanlon MScIT, Integration of QTL, microarray and comparative genome mapping in hypertension, 2002
Parminder Sidhu BSc, Agents for Web Chores, 2002
Dr Nigel Harding MScIT, Software to search a protein sequence database and automatically update a local cache of data for a biological e-laboratory, 2001
Heather Fraser MRes in Bioinformatics, Genome Annotation and Comparison System, 2000
Peter Morton BSc, Data Guide Browser, 2000
Timothy Troup MScIT, Integrated Map Display Applet, 1999
Sarah Cox MScIT, A PJama Implementation of Efficient DNA or Protein Sequence Storage and Retrieval, 1999
Ann Tanner MScIT, Genetic Map Browser, 1999
Martin Knox BSc, Genetic Map Browser, 1999

Background

Ela is originally from Poland where she graduated in English from the Jagiellonian University of Krakow (MA thesis on Mervyn Peake). She then obtained further qualifications in Scottish Literature (MPhil thesis on John Galt) and Computing Science (BA and Diploma in Computing, OU), with a PhD in Computing from the University of Glasgow in 2002 on the creation of very large disk-based suffix trees. She worked at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow as lecturer in English, at BP Exploration in Scotland and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin as a software analyst, at the University of Glasgow in Scotland as a Polish lector and a research fellow in computing science, and as an Oberassistentin in the Database Technology Research Group led by Prof. Klaus R. Dittrich at the University of Zurich. Beside research, she enjoys skiing and hillwalking.