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ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer is a Nigerian bioinformatician.

Career

Ebenezer is from southwestern Nigeria. He earned a Ph.D. from Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Wilfried Haerty at the Earlham Institute, and later moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Professional activities

While at EBI, Ebenezer served as the first president of the Euglena International Network, an effort to support omics research on euglenoids. He also cofounded the African BioGenome Project, an effort to sequence the genomes of all African eukaryotes.

References

1. ^ Makoni, Munyaradzi (15 March 2022). "African effort to sequence continent's biodiversity seeks $1 billion over 10 years". ScienceInsider. doi:10.1126/science.adb2028. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
2. Ebenezer, ThankGod (22 September 2017). The genome of Euglena gracilis: Annotation, function and expression (Thesis). doi:10.17863/CAM.23157.
3. "ThankGod Ebenezer | Earlham Institute". www.earlham.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
4. Agaba, John (14 February 2023). "Scientists to sequence African species to safeguard biodiversity and secure food supplies". Alliance for Science Blog. Alliance for Science. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
5. Hatch, Victoria (22 November 2022). "Unleashing the biotechnology potential of euglenoids". European Bioinformatics Institute. Retrieved 9 November 2023.

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