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Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

- Creation and improvement of automated python-based data processing pipelines- Design, creation, maintenance and improvement of SQL/python-based data analysis packages- Train machine learning models for agricultural metric prediction- Presentation of analysis findings both internally and to external clients (written and video formats)

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

- Creation and improvement of automated python-based data processing pipelines- Design, creation, maintenance and improvement of SQL/python-based data analysis packages- Finding and cleaning of database outliers using statistical tools and SQL- Presentation of analysis findings both internally and to external clients- Creating python packages to automate.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

A two-month position to finish work relating to the interaction of plant nutrition and development in Arabidopsis

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

PhD within the Miller/Sanders lab, undertaking a project on Zn homeostasis in Arabidopsis and its interactions with auxin. Techniques used: Protein sequence analysis using Python, phylogenetic analysis, metabolite analysis using LC-MS, hydroponic culturing of Arabidopsis, microscopy, cloning and yeast handling.Previous lab rotations include the Malone lab.

12 week project working in a small group researching the business prospects for a new technological development involving algae.This included workshops on IP, talking with industry and presenting business ideas.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Laidlaw scholarship funded a 9-week project in the Weng lab in the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Boston, to investigate the biosynthetic pathway for novel compounds in non-model plants.Techniques used: transcriptome mining, phylogeny analysis, cloning and in vitro enzyme assay design.

Maths and Science tutoring for A-level and GCSE students

Ratcliffe Lab, Department Of Plant Sciences

13-C Metabolic flux analysis of Azorhizobium caulinodans in both nitrogen fixing and non-nitrogen fixing conditions.Techniques used: In silico analysis of labelling strategy in 13C-INCA, complex bacterial culturing conditions, enzymatic assays and metabolic flux calculations.

Grossnicklaus Lab, Department Of Plant And Microbial Biology

Heat stress induced hormonal changes and links to RNA metabolism in ArabidopsisTechniques used: Arabidopsis growth, environmental stress induction, confocal microscopy, DIC microscopy, image analysis using IMARIS, genotyping

Banfield Lab, Department Of Biological Chemistry

Investigation into structural and binding characteristics of sHMA proteins, in relation to disease resistance in rice.Funding provided by the BSPPTechniques used: E.coli expression and protein purification, designing in vitro metal binding assays

Schnell Lab, Department Of Biochemistry

Structural characterisation of influenza A M2 proteinTechniques used: E.coli expression and protein purification, solution state NMRPublications resulting from this work: Claridge, J.K., Mohd-Kipli, F., Florea, A., Gate, T. and Schnell, J.R., 2020. pH-dependent secondary structure propensity of the influenza A virus M2 cytoplasmic tail. Biomolecular NMR.

Rotation Phd Student, Plant And Microbial Biochemistry

Master'S Degree, Biochemistry, First Class

-Upper second class (65.7%) in Part II examinations (fourth year) -1st class (75.5%) in Part I examinations (third year) -1st class (89%).

Education record

A-levels - Biology, Chemistry, Maths (all A*) AS-level - Environmental Studies (A) Extended Project Qualification - Efficacy of.