Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Mr Shaun Aron (Participant)

Shaun Aron is a bioinformatician and lecturer at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After pursuing an undergraduate degree in Genetics and Microbiology followed by an Honours degree in Human Genetics, he handed over the pipettes to the experts and entered the then still developing field of bioinformatics completing an MSc degree. Currently he is a member of the H3Africa Pan African Bioinformatics Network (H3ABioNet), which is a network consisting of 28 research institutes in 18 countries, tasked with developing and supporting informatics and genomics research in Africa. He is passionate about developing bioinformatics capacity across Africa and his additional research interests include, exploring and understanding population diversity, structure and admixture in Africa and building representative reference genomes.