Dr Corpas is often invited to give presentations, workshops and specialised courses to a variety of audiences in English and Spanish, ranging from non-technical like clinicians to more technical such as software developers and computational genomicists.
Examples of engagements include:
- Precision Medicine Executive Courses
- Clinical Genetics and Personalised Medicine (Spanish)
- Scientific presentations
- Radio:
- Television:
- Newspapers
Please contact us should you like to arrange a speaking engagement:
International Meeting Oral Presentations
- Oct 2021 “Implementation of Individualised Polygenic Risk Score Analysis: A Test Case of a Family of Four”. Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network, Landmark University, Nigeria
- Nov 2019 “The evolving perspectives of personal genome data sharing”. Longevity World Forum, Valencia, Spain
- Sep 2019 “Evolving insights from a family genome analysis”. Symposium on Personal Control of Genomic Data for Research, NIH / National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, US
- Dec 2015 “Web Driven Visualisations”. Biological Visualisation Network Steering Committee and AGM, TGAC, Norwich, UK
- Oct 2015 “From Static Images to Interactive Web Visualisation – A Tale of Visual Analytics in Biology”. 2nd UK Bioinformatics Student Symposium, TGAC, Norwich, UK
- Jul 2015 “BioJS 2.0: more flexible, modular, open web biological visualization”. Technology Track. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). The official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology
- Mar 2015 “Visual Analytics for Biological Discovery”. Max Plank LeadNet Symposium. Berlin, Germany
- Mar 2015 “The Role of Regional Student Groups in Development of African Bioinformatics”. Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Student Symposium, ISCB Africa
- Dec 2014 “The Open Source BioJS Library for Visualisation of Biological Data on the Web”. Biological Visualisation (BiVi), Edinburgh, Scotland
- Sep 2014 Keynote “Developing the Next Generation of Computational Biologists Through Regional Student Groups”. UK Student Bioinformatics Conference. Cardiff, UK
- Jul 2014 “The BioJS Library and Its Community”. Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC). Boston, US
- May 2014 “Cloud Infrastructure for Training in Life Sciences”. European Grid Infrastructure Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland
- Apr 2014 “Minimum Metadata to interlink services in Life Sciences”. EUDAT meeting. Prague, Czech Republic
- Oct 2013 “How Far We Went When Privacy Issues Stopped Being A Family Concern”. The 8th International Conference on Genomics, Shenzhen, China
- Jul 2013 “BioJS: JavaScript Standardisation, Discoverability and Reutilisation for the Life Sciences”. Highlights Track, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Berlin, Germany
- Jun 2013 “Family Personal Genomics: Are We Ready?” 2nd International Conference on Genomics in Europe (ICG-Europe 2013), Ghent, Belgium
- Apr 2013 “SASI: A Scientific Announcement Standard Initiative”. Biocuration 2013, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
- Apr 2013 “BioJS: A Web 2.0 Framework for Visualization of Biological Components”. GMOD Meeting, Churchill College Cambridge, UK
- Apr 2013 “iAnn: A Scientific Announcement Platform for the Life Sciences”. GMOD Meeting, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
- Feb 2012 “Capacity Building in Plant and Animal Genomes”. 2nd Biological information Objects (BiO) Conference, Theragen Bio Institute (TBI), Suwon, Korea.
- May 2011 “Deciphering Developmental Diseases”. Workshop Genoma Espana. Malaga, Spain
- May 2011 “Experiences With Personal Genetics: A Family Journey”. Open Tech 2011 Conference, London
- Sep 2010 “Who Owns my Genome Data?” Open Tech 2010 Conference, London
- May 2010 Keynote Address, “Maximizing Your Data Results Using DECIPHER”. 11th Annual Clinical Genetics Exchange. Stanford, California, US
- Mar 2010 “Visualizing DECIPHER data with KaryoDAS”. 2010 DAS Workshop. European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Jan 2010 “How to Get the Most Out of Your Data Using DECIPHER”. Joint Eisenberg-Cartagenia-DECIPHER Workshop. Jerusalem, Israel
- July 2009 “Decipher: Shedding light on Chromosome Imbalance Interpretation”. European Cytogenetics Association, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sep 2005 “An Integrated Approach to Structural and Functional Motif Prediction”. Exploring Protein Structure. Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel
Poster Presentations
- D Schwartz, T Goldberg, B Rost, P Lio, M Corpas (2015). The BioJS Multilayer Visualisation Widget. 2nd UK Bioinformatics Student Symposium
- B Rauscher, B White, B Rost, M Corpas (2015). VAPoR: A Visual web pipeline for Annotation of host/pathogen interactions in Plant Resistance. Galaxy Community Conference, Norwich, UK
- Swarbreck, B. Clavijo, D. Mapleson, M. Corpas, A. Sugio, K. Kowitwanich, P. Lenzi, G. Kettles, and S. Hogenhout (2013). Draft genome sequence of the polyphagous green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), National Institutes of Bioscience Conference 2013, UK
- Swarbreck, M. Corpas, S. Caim, D. Marshal, C. Simpson, J.W.S. Brown (2013). The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium. Dynamic Alternative Splicing in Barley. Genome Informatics, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK
- Higgins, M. Corpas, N. Chapman, G. King, G. Seymour, D. Swarbreck (2012). Effect of a wild species introgression on genome methylation in Tomato. UK Next Gen Sequencing Meeting 2012, Nottingham, UK
- Corpas, D. Swarbreck (2012) Enhancing Gene Annotation in Castor bean through RNA-Seq. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Long Beach, California
- Kahlem, M. Corpas,E. Birney (2008) – ENFIN – Integrative Systems Biology Across Europe. Computational Cell Biology, Joint Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Conference
- Corpas, J. Sinnott, D. Thorne, S. Pettifer, and T. Attwood, and the PFF Consortium (2007). PFFmot – An integrated resource for characterising structural and functional regions in proteins. AFP-Biosapiens 2007, Vienna, Austria
- Corpas(2004). Large Scale Correspondence of Structural Domains to Sequence motifs. Genome Informatics, Joint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Conference. September 22-26, 2004, Cambridge, UK
- Pettifer, T. Attwood, J. Sinnott, N. Vass, and M. Corpas(2002). UTOPIA: User-friendly Tools for OPerating Informatics Applications. Proceedings of 1st All-Hands Meeting of the UK e-Science Programme, Sept 2002
Invited Oral Presentations
- Oct 2015 “Technical opportunities and challenges across ELIXIR platforms”, ELIXIR-UK Node Meeting, Birmingham, UK
- Oct 2015 “TGAC’s contributions to EXCELERATE WP7”, EXCELERATE WP7 kick off meeting, EBI, Hinxton, UK
- June 2015 “SASI: a Scientific Announcements Standard Initiative”, ELIXIR Training e-Support System (TeSS) workshop. Darwin House, London, UK
- Mar 2015 “A Prototype for Analysis of Metrics”, All Hands Meeting, ELIXIR, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Nov 2014 “A Personal Experience in Genomics Analysis”, DNAdigest Symposium, Cambridge, UK
- Oct 2014 “Measuring Impact of Resources Across ELIXIR”, ELXIR-UK All Hands Meeting, Hinxton, UK
- Feb 2014 “Searching The Meaning Of Human In A Personal Genome”, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
- Jan 2014 “The BioJavaScript Framework For Biological Data Visualisation”, Eagle Genomics, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
- Jan 2014 “Finding The Human Being In A Personal Genome”, Netherhall University Hall Of Residence, London
- Jul 2013 “GOBLET Technical Task Force Update”. GOBLET AGM Meeting, ISMB, Berlin
- Mar 2013 “Análisis muy personal de un genoma de la tierra”. Department of Computer Science, University of Málaga, Spain
- Nov 2012 “Event Sharing in Bioinformatics Training”. First GOBLET Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- June 2011 “Deciphering Developmental Diseases”. Christine Orengo Journal Club, University College London, UK
- May 2011 “Remapping DECIPHER”. Annual DECIPHER Workshop. Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Feb 2011 “The Role of Personal Genomes in the Medicine of the Future”. Medical Ethics Discussion Group. Fisher House, University of Cambridge, UK
- Jan 2011 “Personal Genomes: Blurring the Lines of the Impersonal”. Faraday Institute, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
- Sep 2010 “Deciphering DECIPHER 5.0”. Informatics General Meeting, WTSI, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- May 2010 “Remapping the Unmappable”. Annual DECIPHER Workshop. Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Feb 2010 “KaryoDAS: An Interactive Genome Visualization Tool”. 2nd London BioGeeks’ Tech Meet. Imperial College London, UK
- Nov 2009 “Bioinformatics Tools for Visualization and Analysis of DECIPHER data.” Johannes Kepler University, Nov 23 2009, Linz, Austria
- Apr 2007 “PFFmot, a tool for motif characterization”. National Institute for Cancer Research, Spain
- Nov 2007 “Translating Genomic Technology”. La Paz, Bolivia
- Apr 2006 “Distinguishing functional and structural motifs”. Duke University, USA
- Jun 2005 “Protein family classification using fingerprints”. EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
- Apr 2004 “The genomics revolution”. University of Navarre, Spain
Ad hoc Teaching
- Nov 2020 “Personalised Medicine”, Third Year Undergraduate Medicine Students, University of Cambridge, UK
- Nov 2019 “Personalised Medicine”, Third Year Undergraduate Medicine Students, University of Cambridge, UK
- Mar 2015 “Solutions for Massive Data Handling: BioJS and ELIXIR”. Environmental Genomics Course, Birmingham University.
- Jan 2015 “Clinical and Personal Genome Analysis”. MSc Module at the University of Navarre, Spain
- Oct 2014 “Reuse, Develop and Share Biological Visualisation with BioJS”. 2 day tutorial at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Sep 2014 “Reuse, Develop and Share Biological Visualisation with BioJS”. 1 day tutorial at the ECCB conference, Strasbourg, France
- Mar 2014 “Reuse, Develop and Share Biological Visualisation with BioJS”. Half day tutorial at the VizBi conference, Heidelberg, Germany
- Feb 2014 “Genomic databases and annotation”. MSc Computational Biology Module at the University of East Anglia, UK
- Dec 2013 “Clinical and Personal Genome Analysis”. MSc Module at the University of Navarre, Spain
- Sep 2013 “Crowdsourcing the Analysis of Personal Family Genomes: A 4 Year Perspective”. Synthetic Biology Course, SynBioBeta, Cambridge, UK
- Mar 2013 “Plant and Animal Genomes Bioinformatics.” TGAC Bioinformatics Seminar, Norwich, UK
- Mar 2013 “Frontiers in Personal Genomics”. Medical Genetics Module, 3d year Biomedical Sciences, Anglia-Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
- Mar 2013 “Genomic Annotation”. Genome Informatics module for MSc Computational Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Feb 2013 “Genomic Databases”. Genome Informatics module for MSc Computational Biology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- Feb 2013 “Introduction to Expression Analysis”. AllBio Course on Data Resources and Tools for Plant-Omics, EBI, Hinxton, UK
- Jul 2012 “Análisis de los genomas de una familia malagueña”. Summer course in Bioinformatics, University of Málaga, Spain
- Jul 2012 “Improving Ricinus communis annotation”. TGAC Bioinformatics Seminar, Norwich, UK
- Jun 2012 “Expression Analysis of RNA-seq Data”. EMBO Practical Course on Plant Bioinformatics, EBI, Hinxton, UK
- Jan 2012 “How to Use DECIPHER”. Hospital Materno Infantil, Malaga, Spain
- May 2011 “An Overview of Your Genome”. Public Engagement Program. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Feb 2011 “Human Genome Variation”. Public Engagement Program. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- Oct 2010 DECIPHER workshop. NowGen, Manchester, UK
- Jul 2010 “Advances in Clinical Genetics”. Cutting Edge Genetics Course for Teachers. Public Engagement Program, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
- May 2010 DECIPHER workshop. NowGen, Manchester, UK
- Apr 2010 “The Human Genome”. Public Engagement Program. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
- Jan 2010 “Workshop on the interpretation of array data”. Fundamentals of Clinical Genetics 2010. A Course for Clinical Geneticists endorsed by the Clinical Genetics Society and the Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
- Apr 2009 DECIPHER workshop. NowGen, Manchester, UK
- 2005 Biocomputing Demonstrator. MSc Bioinformatics. University of Manchester, UK