Jacqui Keane has a PhD in Software Engineering from the National University of Irelane, Maynooth and joined the Pathogen group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. In 2010, she took on the role of managing the Pathogen Informatics team whose main responsibilities are to develop sequence analysis pipelines and provide informatics support to the Infection Genomics programme.