Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Heading operations of microarray, culturing, FISH, and cancer targeted sequencing technical teams. Supporting development and implementation of new projects within the wet lab of the laboratory Providing support to Senior Genetic Technologist with smooth running of the laboratory
Working on a CRISPR-Cas9 project with the group of professor Metodi Metodiev. Techniques used: - cell culturing - DNA cloning - transformations and transfection
As a communications/marketing assistant I was responsible for the development and maintenance of the marketing activities for Repositive (creating marketing materials, organising outreach in connection with events). Along with this I was assisting with communications activities for DNAdigest such as writing blog posts, updating social media channels, organising events, preparing weekly newsletter and conducting a series of interviews focused on projects that facilitate data sharing for genomics research. You can take a look at my work at http://dnadigest.org/news/page/7/ or http://archives.open-steps.org/what-we-do/
I was employed at the MMC as a laboratory technician. The main task during my working year with the MMC was to conduct scientific experiments aiming to confirm the genetic reason for the development of a certain disease or phenotype. I was performing laboratory diagnostics procedures, following and improving the existing standard protocols or optimizing conditions in collaboration with the other staff working in the laboratory to create new methods. During the year I was also taught how to analyse, evaluate and interpret the laboratory results using relevant software. Main laboratory skills developed were: PCR amplification, horizontal gel electrophoresis, ExoSap and ethanol/EDTA purification, DNA isolation and quality evaluation of samples