Benjamen W. Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

Working within the The Biomedical Sequencing Facility as an NGS Bioinformatician, focused on our primary analysis pipeline for sequencing provisions and ad hoc developmental projects for our internal and external client-base.

Norwich

Working primarily as part of the Design Future Wheat and 10+ Wheat Genomes projects, aimed at advancing wheat research through data integration and enhancing communication between bioinformaticians, wheat scientists and breeders, and development of computational tools and pipelines to carry out comparative genomics analysis on multiple elites.

Investigating tissue-specific differential methylation of sub-genome homologs and the role these play in changes in gene expression and regulation.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Providing a range of project management and project support activities, to ensure the efficient, competitive and effective delivery of high-throughput sequencing projects, primarily within the subject areas of food security, health, and sustainability.• Leaning to quickly and independently research and develop an understanding of new technology and techniques, to improve strategising and conceptualisation of complex processes and their associated pipelines• Efficiently and effectively communicating the required outputs to the technical teams• Maintaining records in MISO, Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, and reporting these.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Acting within the Project Management Team as a point of first contact for new sequencing enquiries, in addition to providing quotations, maintaining up-to-date records, and assisting with the management and delivery of projects; to ensure their required outputs are met.

The Edwards Lab

Studying the role of a novel metalloprotease in the crosstalk between adipocytes and ductal carcinoma, as part of an eight week project funded by The Company of Biologists, in Prof. Dylan Edwards' lab.Variety of technical skills developed during this studentship including: • Tissue/Cell Culture• Differentiation of cell lines• Gene silencing using siRNA• qRT-PCR• Preparing and running gels• Spectrophotometry• Presenting findings in the forms of a final report, and presentation

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genome Sciences/Genomics

BBSRC iCASE Ph.D. studentship based at the Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK (paired with Eagle Genomics Ltd). Investigating the evolution.

Bsc (Hons), Biological Sciences, 2:1

Modules include: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology and Mechanisms of Disease, Infection and Immunity, Evolution of Health and Disease.

Bsc Science With A Foundation Year

Studying modules in; Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science

Education record

4 A-levels; Human Biology, Chemistry, Media Studies, and General Studies 1 AS-level; Psychology

Education record

10 GCSEs; Including - English, Maths, and Double Award Science. 2 GNVQs; ICT