Dr Inimary Toby-Ogundeji is a Tenured Associate Professor of Biology at University of Dallas. She holds a doctoral degree in Integrated Biomedical Sciences from The Ohio State University, College of Medicine. Her postdoctoral training was in Functional Genomics at the FAA-Civil Aerospace Medical Institute in Oklahoma City. Dr Toby-Ogundeji went on to work as a Staff Scientist specializing in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). While at OUHSC, she also organized materials for core competencies in undergraduate bioinformatics educational programs as part of a National Institute of Health-INBRE grant. Dr Toby-Ogundeji worked for several years on an NIH-funded project as a Senior Scientist (specializing in Computational Biology) at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In addition to her research work, she developed and delivered training workshops, codeathons, webinars and nanocourses as part of the project. During that time, she served as a contributing scientist to help establish standard practices for NIH FAIR principles in data reporting and data analysis of immune repertoire sequence data. Dr Toby-Ogundeji has more than 20 years experience as a scientist and has developed and taught courses at several institutions. She enjoys mentoring students and is very active in regional and national scientific societies. Dr Toby-Ogundeji is the director of a joint Bioinformatics summer program with Sapienza University of Rome. Her research collaborations include National Heart Lung and Blood Institute-BioLINCC, Penn State University and UT Southwestern. Her research focuses on cell signalling consequences that occur at the cellular/molecular interface of lung diseases. She is leveraging the use of computational methods (machine learning and AI) to assess immune sequencing and other types of high throughput sequencing data as a means to better understand human diseases.
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