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My journey to becoming a Research Data Steward

Green, Angharad

Publisher
Zenodo
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.17478442
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zenodo.org
Language
en

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This video is a talk from the Data Steward Stories session at the CaSDaR Townhall Launch event on the 18th September 2025, in person at the Library of Birmingham and online. The presentation speaker was Angharad Green from UCL. Speaker Bio: After a career as a researcher in the area of bacterial genomics and microbial evolution , Angharad became a senior research data steward at UCL. Her experience in whole genome sequencing, transcriptomics, and metabolomics gave her the necessary skills to provide support in the management of large, complex data sets and to train others to do so as well. At the CaSDaR launch event Angharad described her journey from a research career, addressing the importance of antimicrobial resistance as a global challenge, to working as a data steward as well as present her poster on the work of the ARC-UCL data stewardship team. More information on the event can be found here: https://casdar.ac.uk/event/careers-and-skills-for-data-driven-research-casdar-hybrid-event-launch/ This video is an output from the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) initiative, a 4-year UKRI funded dRTP initiative, grant number UKRI739. A recording of this presentation is available at: https://youtu.be/efmrPBppDe0

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Angharad Green My journey to becoming a Research Data Steward My career so far – Microbiologist turned Data Steward BSc Equine Science – Oxford Brookes University MSc Medical Microbiology, Biomedical Science – Cardiff Metropolitan University Applied for graduate Veterinary Medicine - £££ Conjugation and QC Scientist PhDBacterial genomics – identify the key genetic pathways and metabolic networks involved in Industrial Pseudomonas aeruginosa preservative resistance PhD work Postdoc at University of Liverpool My career continued– Microbiologist turned Data Steward Postdoc work - In vivo experimental evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae The overall aim was to identify and characterise bacterial genes that allow the pneumococcus to survive in different host environments. Genes that are essential for survival in the lung and blood could be used in a potential virulence targeting vaccine Lineage 3 Lineage 4 0 25 50 75 100 0 5 10 15 20 Passage Number Frequency (%) D39N_00558=E72V ltxB=L155L, D39N_01315=S85A & D39N_01771=F370L bceA=M122V rny=R531S dnaK=A458A D39N_01974=A608S 0 25 50 75 100 0 5 10 15 20 Passage Number Frequency (%) D39N_00546=D55D D39N_00558=E72V D39N_01974=A608S D39N_01974=A608S gpsA=G208R yknX=S331N yknX=S331N Examples of parallel evolution in independently evolved nasopharynx lineages Green et al, Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 To visualise the evolutionary dynamics of the lineage mutations over time, Muller plots were constructed Postdoc work R&D Microbiologist at Unilever, Port Sunlight – Human Microbiome group Research, Awards and Partnerships Manager, London Senior Research Data Steward at UCL, London My career continued– Microbiologist turned Data Steward Key experiences that built my research data stewardship skills Working with genomic data Managing experimental evolution datasets Working with metabolomics datasets Uploading datasets and metadata to domain specific repositories Visualisation of large complex data sets Going through the publication process Grant writing Working in industry with - QA and QC processes Bioinformatics Mouse model work Handing over research projects Documenting methodology Research Data Stewardship Projects • Migrating research data from cloud platforms to UCL’s Research Data Storage Service (RDSS) • Developing and delivering workshops – Building data skills to tackle AMR