Senior Research Associate

3 weeks ago


Hinxton, United Kingdom Wellcome Sanger Institute Full time
About the Role:

You will be embedded in the Cellular Genetics Wet Lab Support Team and primarily support the research activities of the Haniffa group. This position is for a 2-year fixed-term contract and there are multiple positions available.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Participate in exciting projects that use cutting-edge technologies to multi-omically map the human skin during disease progression and response to drug interventions for a variety of dermatological conditions in adult skin.
  • Support other exciting projects including the Human Cell Atlas work being undertaken in Cellular Genetics.
  • Implement pioneering genomic technologies and bespoke sequencing library creation for gene expression, immune cell profiling and chromatin accessibility analysis of single cells or nuclei in preparation for downstream NGS analysis, using 10X Genomics protocols.
  • Use multiple sample and data trackers to carefully keep track of important experimental metadata.
  • Support the day-to-day management of the lab, including monitoring of resources, reporting equipment and experiment faults, optimising protocols and ensuring the deliverables of the project are met in a timely manner.
About You:

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills alongside strong time management and organisational skills are needed, as is the ability to troubleshoot and identify areas for process improvement.

You are expected to bring molecular biology experience to this role and ideally already have a working knowledge of a variety of 10X technologies including but not limited to; single cell and single nuclei RNA sequencing, ATAC-seq, CITE-seq and spatial transcriptomics, however further training will be provided.

The role will require you to be adaptable and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to closely coordinate with the Scientific Managers, Staff Scientists and other members of the team leading and working on these projects.



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