About me

My name is Jimmy Breen and I'm the Bioinformatics Team manager for the South Australian Genomics Centre (SAGC) located at the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) here in Adelaide, South Australia. I have a few other roles as well, firstly as a Team Leader in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at the Robinson Research Institute, and Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Medical School at the University of Adelaide</a>. I'm interested in everything associated with Genomics, Bioinformatics and Data Science. I have a background in Plant Genomics, Ancient DNA and Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies, and have worked across Australia and in Europe for academic and commercial institutions. Personally, I'm a lover of many sports (mostly Australian Rules Football), BBQ, craft beer, wine and hanging with my family. This blog is a collection of scientific ideas, thoughts and interesting topics covered by myself (in my work or personal life) or from my brilliant Bioinformatics co-workers and students.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Topics and opinions covered on this blog may not the opinion of my employer.

Some extra info

• I am President of the Australian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society (ABACBS). We aim to help promote Bioinformatics in the Australian Scientific Community
• In a previous life I worked as an ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, working on ancient plant DNA. My main field site was a cave in Southern Armenian called Areni-1
• I helped develop ACAD's Online Ancient Genome Repository (OAGR), a data repository for ancient human and microbiome sequence data
• Yes I do have a bad knee. But I wont let it define me (only my blog and `github` username)

Things im into at the moment (added whenever...)

• Youtube deep dives: Im current trying to watch every possible food show on youtube
• My best mate Gusface Grillah has an amazing bbq blog which you should definitely check out. Recently featured on buzzfeed as an Australian food blog that "will change the way you eat", which is good thing ..... i think
• He's actually just branched out and started the Perth BBQ School as well. So if you're in WA, check out his awesome classes (I've helped out in a few!)