Ruth Eberhardt

Ruth Eberhardt is a Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, specializing in the Human Genetics programme, focusing on data from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders and Prenatal Assessment of Genomes and Exomes studies to enhance understanding of rare developmental disorders. Prior experience includes roles as a Senior Computer Biologist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute/European Bioinformatics Institute, where responsibilities involved maintaining the Pfam release pipeline, and as a Scientific Database Curator at EBI, engaging in high-quality manual annotation of proteins in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. Additionally, Ruth held a Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge, contributing to antibody production through cloning techniques, and served as a Research Assistant at the Animal Health Trust, developing diagnostic tests for viral infections in equines. Educational qualifications include an MSc in Applied Bioinformatics from Cranfield University, a Ph.D. in Molecular Enzymology from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Biological Sciences from Lancaster University.