Dr Nelzo Ereful

Bioinformatician and bioinformatics training coordinator
Nelzo Ereful

Nelzo develops and delivers bioinformatics training materials for staff to enhance their technical and analytical skills. He also provide bioinformatics support to researchers, offering guidance and assistance in applying best practices for the implementation and optimisation of computational tools and analysis pipelines. Nelzo completed his postdoctorate at Niab on wheat pathogenomics implementing NGS to understand the progressive infection of various pathogens on wheat through time.

Research

His research interests include allelic imbalance and its association with molecular heterosis in staple crops. This aims to better understand molecular interactions underlying hybrid vigour and translating these insights into practical applications for crop breeding.  

He is also involved in studying the utilisation of neglected and underutilised but nutrient-rich crops (e.g. tef and foxtail millet), collaborating with Asian and African LMICs, applying multi-omics approaches to unlock their potential for sustainable agriculture and improved nutrition.  

Publications

Full publication list Google Scholar

Ereful, Nelzo C1, Alonday, RS, Lalusin AG. (2025) Molecular heterosis in the abaca (Musa textilis Née) BC2 hybrid, Bandala. bioRXiv. CSHL. 

Alice Casassola*, Nelzo C. Ereful*, Camila Zanella*, et al. 2024. Transcriptome analysis of the durable leaf rust resistance in the wheat variety Toropi. Plant Pathology, 00, 1–14. 

Nelzo C. Ereful1, Jose Arnel O. Reyes, et al. 2023. Assessing nutritional and genetic variations within foxtail millet (Setaria italica) landraces collected from indigenous communities across the Philippines. Heliyon. 9(12), e22964. 

Ereful, NC 1, Jones, H, Fradgley, N. Lesley Boyd, Hirut Assaye Cherie, et al. Nutritional and genetic variation in a core set of Ethiopian Tef (Eragrostis tef) varieties. BMC Plant Biol 22, 220 (2022). 

Ereful, N.C. 1; Lalusin, A.G.; Laurena, A.C. Assessing loss of regulatory divergence, genome–transcriptome incongruence, and preferential expression switching in abaca × banana backcrosses. Genes 2022, 13, 1396. 

 

1corresponding author
*equal contribution