Dr Dinithi Sumanaweera
Senior Bioinformatician
Prior to joining the Biodiversity Cell Atlas team, Dinithi was a Principal Scientist in Data Science at GSK. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Sarah Teichmann’s lab, studying Bayesian probabilistic models for comparing in vitro and in vivo systems using their single-cell transcriptomic profiles (specifically on aligning single-cell developmental trajectories). Dinithi did her PhD at Prof. Arun Konagurthu’s lab in Monash University, Australia, where she worked on protein alignment modelling. She is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
My timeline
Senior Bioinformatician for the Biodiversity Cell Atlas in the Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Principal Scientist in Data Science at Data, Automation and Predictive Sciences, GSK.
Schmidt Accelerate Programme Fellow at the Teichmann Lab, Cavendish Laboratory and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Teichmann Lab, Cellular Genetics Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute.
PhD candidate in Computational Biology at the Konagurthu Lab, Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.