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.

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Skills

Bioinformatics

90%

Machine learning

60%

Statistics

70%

Research

70%

Experience

PREVIOUS ASSOCIATIONS THAT HELPED TO GATHER EXPERIENCE

 
 
 
 
 

PhD Biology

University of Cambridge

Sep 2020 – Present Cambridge, UK
Thesis: Computational Methods To Design Broad-Spectrum Medical Countermeasures Against Antigenically Diverse Pathogens
 
 
 
 
 

Bioinformatician

Lifebit

Jul 2018 – Jul 2020 London, UK

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.

 
 
 
 
 

BSc Biology, First Class Honours

University of Southampton

Sep 2015 – Jul 2018 Southampton, UK
Thesis: Differences in Telomere Length Predicted from the Exome Data of Bladder Cancer and Matched Control Tissue Samples 86%.

Recent Posts

My first blog post :)

Projects

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Microarray Expression Analysis

Built bioinformatics pipeline to automate the discovery of differentially expressed genes & pathways from microarray data

DTC support

Bioinformatics pipeline development for Direct To Consumer (DTC) genetics companies

Drug repurposing & pathway analysis

Found drug targets and pathways to accelerate the pharma industry

Antiviral drug repurposing

Using differential gene expression & drug repurposing techniques to find broad-spectrum antiviral candidates

Metagenomics Research

Helped in the research & user interviews for a microbiome metagenomics project

Pharmacogenomics

Developed pharmacogenomics Nextflow pipelines

ECW Converter

Dockerised python scripts & pipeline for converting the file format of aerial images

nf-core/deepvariant

Google’s DeepVariant variant caller as a Nextflow pipeline

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Intro to Nextflow, Containers and The Cloud (45 participants)

Intro to Nextflow, Containers and The Cloud

Winner of the world’s first clean meat hackathon

Publications

Differences in Telomere Length Predicted from the Exome Data of Bladder Cancer and Matched Control Tissue Samples

Contact

Please don’t hesitate to contact me

  • Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK