My name is Phil Palmer and I’m a PhD student specialising in Bioinformatics
I want to use my career to do as much good as possible, by leveraging technologies such as bioinformatics and data science to help prevent/mitigae pandemics.
I want to use my career to do as much good as possible, by leveraging technologies such as bioinformatics and data science to help prevent/mitigae pandemics.
Phil Palmer is a PhD student in biology at the University of Cambridge, in Professor Jonathan Heeney‘s lab. His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning and viral genomics. He is currently working on computational methods to design broad-spectrum vaccines and antibodies against pathogens such as coronaviruses and influenza viruses.
Prior to this he worked for two years as an early employee and bioinformatician at the breakout start-up Lifebit. He also holds a first-class degree in Biology from the University of Southampton.
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PREVIOUS ASSOCIATIONS THAT HELPED TO GATHER EXPERIENCE
Helped the company triple in size (in both employees and valuation) and was instrumental in numerous key projects such as the delivery of the Genomics England Research Platform for COVID-19 response.
I was invloved end-to-end delivery of projects, everything from gathering technical requirements, to building bioinformatics pipelines and providing professional technical customer support.
Built bioinformatics pipeline to automate the discovery of differentially expressed genes & pathways from microarray data
Bioinformatics pipeline development for Direct To Consumer (DTC) genetics companies
Found drug targets and pathways to accelerate the pharma industry
Using differential gene expression & drug repurposing techniques to find broad-spectrum antiviral candidates
Helped in the research & user interviews for a microbiome metagenomics project
Developed pharmacogenomics Nextflow pipelines
Dockerised python scripts & pipeline for converting the file format of aerial images
Google’s DeepVariant variant caller as a Nextflow pipeline
