ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer


ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer is a Nigerian bioinformatician.

Career

Ebenezer is from southwestern Nigeria. He earned a Ph.D. from Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Wilfried Haerty at the Earlham Institute, and later moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Professional activities

While at EBI, Ebenezer served as the first president of the Euglena International Network, an effort to support omics research on euglenoids. He also cofounded the African BioGenome Project, an effort to sequence the genomes of all African eukaryotes.