Senior Single-Cell & Spatial Genomics Scientist

Wellcome Sanger Institute; Saffron Walden; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellcome Sanger Institute is recruiting a Senior Bioinformatician to lead single-cell and spatial data analysis across immune biology projects, with a focus on reproductive tissues and women's diseases. You will design, troubleshoot, and interpret analyses from sequencing through clustering and annotation, collaborating within Vento and publishing findings.

The role requires deep expertise in scRNA-seq/spatial omics, biotechnology knowledge, and strong Python/R skills, with hybrid working on

Qualifications

• PhD in biology, computational biology, genetics, biomedicine, computer science, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis and interpretation of large-scale single-cell (scRNA-seq, snRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, multiomics), spatial transcriptomic and CRISPR datasets across projects centred on immune cell biology.

Skills

PhD in bioinformatics

Single-cell transcriptomics

Python

R

Unix/HPC

Problem solving

Workload management

Communication

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Python

R

Unix

HPC

Job description

Wellcome Sanger Institute is recruiting a Senior Bioinformatician to lead single-cell and spatial data analysis across immune biology projects, with a focus on reproductive tissues and women's diseases. You will design, troubleshoot, and interpret analyses from sequencing through clustering and annotation, collaborating within Vento and publishing findings.

The role requires deep expertise in scRNA-seq/spatial omics, biotechnology knowledge, and strong Python/R skills, with hybrid working on