Ibra Lujumba

Ibra Lujumba is a graduate student at the ACE pursuing a Master of Science in Bioinformatics. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry & Chemistry (First Class Hons) from Makerere University(2019) and is a beneficiary of the BRecA graduate scholarship award. He is a member of two H3Africa Genome Analysis Working Groups (GAWG): The Repeat Expansion GAWG where he is part of the analysis team, and the Transcriptomics GAWG where he is co-lead.

He is also a teaching assistant for the Master of Science in Bioinformatics program while carrying out research on how indigenous cattle are adaped to trypanosomiasis-endemic environments by using whole-genome and RNA sequence data.