My name is Jing Qi, and I am currently a MRes Biomedical Research student at Imperial College London.
Before enrolling into the MRes programme, I was working as a research assistant in Prof Albert Tenesa's lab at the Roslin Institute. I was working with Dr Pau Navarro, Prof James Prendergast and Prof Albert Tenesa to develop the first high-density DNA methylation array for cattle using a self-designed bioinformatics workflow.
I am interested in understanding the molecular background of diseases in humans and livestock, utlising multi-omics and machine learning approaches. Moreover, my bioinformatician alter ego enjoys developing tools and reproducible workflows for data analysis.
I graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences (Genetics). I learned and gained experience in bioinformatics by participating in various projects during my undergraduate life. In the summer of 2021, I did a two month placement with Prof James Prendergast, in which I examined a Boran genome to determine the potential causal variant that confers tolerance to East Coast Fever. During my final (honours) year, I chose a bioinformatics-orientated project in The Wallace Lab, under the supervision of Dr Edward Wallace and Dr Sam Haynes. My honours project was about studying the RNA-protein interaction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, focusing on Khd1. I also developed an improved version of bioinformatics workflow to analyse the interaction between RNA and protein.
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