Job Description
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.
We are seeking a Technical Specialist to join the Bayraktar lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute to generate large-scale spatial transcriptomic datasets of neurodegenerative diseases. Supported by Open Targets, the technical specialist will initially optimise Xenium spatial transcriptomics and high multiplexed protein imaging on patient tissue samples. The role will subsequently expand to supervise and coordinate single cell and spatial transcriptomic data generation in the project. This position is for a 2 year contract.
About Us:
The Bayraktar lab uses spatial and single cell transcriptomics to discover the biology of human brain disorders. The team has generated large-scale single cell and spatial multiomic atlases of human brain diseases and other pathologies with deep experience in spatial transcriptomic data generation and analysis.
Open Targets is a public-private partnership involving the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a world-leading genomics institution, EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), a global leader in the management, integration and analysis of public domain life science data, and world-leading pharmaceutical companies GSK, Sanofi, MSD, Pfizer, and G...