Robert Waterhouse Email & Phone Number

Since September 2023, I am leading the Environmental Bioinformatics Group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Our activities and research aim to build capacities in coordinating biodata resources and developing data science tools and services that contribute to planetary preservation and restoration by addressing the global crisis and delivering direct benefits for society, with a focus on genomics data as part of developing the broader biodiversity knowledge graph to connect and integrate diverse data types for enhanced understanding and monitoring of the health of species and ecosystems.Previously at the University of Lausanne's Department of Ecology and Evolution, my Group's research focus has been on elucidating interactions between gene evolution and gene function through developing computational approaches to interrogate evolutionary and functional genomics data, with a biological focus on insects and other arthropods as their countless adaptations mean that they are ideal for investigating how conservation or divergence of functional genomic elements give rise to the splendour of animal biology.