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Dr. Borbala Mifsud
Associate Professor
Dr. Borbala Mifsud
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD
MSc
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Dr. Mifsud graduated in biology from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest in 2006 and obtained her PhD from the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna in 2010. Her work with Thomas Jenuwein involved the epigenetic characterisation of a histone methylation deficient mouse model. After her molecular biology training, she started bioinformatics in the laboratory of Professor Nicholas Luscombe at EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge, and subsequently moved to UCL and the Crick Institute in London. In her postdoctoral work she focussed on developing methods for the analysis of Hi-C type data and finding new biological insights into transcriptional regulation, by applying these methods to Hi-C and capture Hi-C data sets. Dr. Mifsud joined the William Harvey Research Insitute in QMUL as an MRC eMedLab Career Development Fellow and Lecturer in 2015, where she used chromatin interaction data to understand the function of regulatory GWAS mutations. Dr. Mifsud has been an Assistant Professor at HBKU since July 2018.
PhD
University of Vienna, Austria
2010
MSc
Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
2006
- Using chromatin structure information for understanding the effect of GWAS loci
- Uncovering chromatin interactions that change during development
- Identifying the important regulatory interactions in diseases such as leukaemia
MRC Career Development Fellow - Lecturer;
William Harvey Research Institute; Queen Mary University London, UK
2015 - 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University College London and the Francis Crick Instiute, London, UK
2012 - 2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
EBML European Bioinformatics Institute; Cambridge, UK
2010 - 2012
PhD Student
Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
2006 - 2010
Diploma Student
National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary
2004 - 2006
Student researcher
Department of Plant Taxonomy, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
2003 - 2004
Nature Genetics; 2018 Sep; doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0205-x Evangelou E.*, Warren H.R.*, Mosen-Ansorena D.*, Mifsud B.*, Pazoki R.*, He G.*, Ntritsos G.*, Dimou N.* et al
Nature Communications; 2018 May 16;9(1):1947. Ramírez J., Duijvenboden S.V. Ntalla I., Mifsud B., Warren H.R., Tzanis E., Orini M., Tinker A., Lambiase P.D., Munroe P.B.
PLoS One; 2017 Apr 5;12(4):e0174744 Mifsud B.*, Martincorena I.*, Darbo E., Sugar R., Schoenfelder S., Fraser P., Luscombe N.M.
Nature Genetics; 2017 Mar;49(3):403-415 Warren H.R.*, Evangelou E.*, Cabrera C.P.*, Gao H.*, Ren M*., Mifsud B.*, et al
Nature Genetics; 2015 Oct;47(10):1179-86 Schoenfelder S.*, Sugar R.*, Dimond A.*, Javierre B-M.*, Armstrong H.*, Mifsud B., Dimitrova E., Tavares-Cadete F., Furlan-Magaril M., Jurkowski W., Segonds-Pichon A., Wingett S., Tabbada K., Andrews S., Herman B., LeProust E., Osborne C.S., Koseki H., Fraser P., Luscombe N.M., Elderkin S.
Nature Genetics; 2015 Jun;47(6):598-606 Mifsud B.*, Tavares-Cadete F.*, Young A. N.*, Sugar R., Schoenfelder S., Ferreira L., Wingett S. , Andrews S., Grey W., Ewels P.A., Herman B., Happe S., Higgs A., LeProust E., Follows G.A., Fraser P., Luscombe N.M., Osborne C.S.
Genome Research; 2015 Apr;25(4):582-97 Schoenfelder S.*, Furlan-Magaril M.*, Mifsud B.*, Tavares-Cadete F.*, Sugar R., Javierre B-M., Nagano T., Katsman Y., Sakthidevi M., Wingett S. W., Dimitrova E., Dimond A., Edelman L. B., Elderkin S., Tabbada K., Darbo E., Andrews S., Herman B., Higgs A., LeProust E., Osborne C.S., Mitchell J.A., Luscombe N.M., Fraser P.
- 2015 eMedLab Career Development fellowship; Medical Research Council; London/UK
- 2010 Frontiers in Functional Genomics exchange grant; European Science Foundation; Cambridge/UK
- 2009 Travel award; European Union Network of Excellence