Senior Scientist- Molecular
York, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hybrid / WFH Options
Fera Science Ltd
for the effective delivery of project work using DNA barcoding to identify plant health pests and pathogens to species, and phylogenetic and population genetic analysis to investigate movements of pests and pathogens. This will involve laboratory work (DNA extractions, PCRs, troubleshooting), desk-based analyses and report and paper writing. … York BioTech Campus, YO41 1LZ Working pattern: 37.5 per week (flexi) What you’ll be doing: Deliver on projects, including planning, conducting experiments, analysing data and contributing to project reports. Undertake DNA sequence analysis to deliver DNA barcoding results, including working Sanger sequence data, generating sequence alignments … using external databases such as GenBank, Q-Bank and BOLD to generate species identifications, and consulting the relevant scientific literature. DNA alignments and phylogenetic analysis based on tree-building, with an understanding of different methods used for these. Population genetic analysis to inform on pest population distributions and more »
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