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2020 vision: supporting the people behind our science

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 MarkThomson MarkThomson career development, culture, diversity, equality, gender, inclusion, life, support, training, work, workplace min read

Read about our ongoing and upcoming work to ensure that all our staff and students from all backgrounds can thrive

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#SangerAdvent

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019 cc13sangeracuk min read

For our advent calendar on Twitter, this year we celebrated our staff from around the world. Each day, someone told us how they celebrate the festive period in their home country.

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Causality and the genetic thesaurus

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Sanger Institute min read

Manuel Tardaguila is a postdoctoral research scientist in Nicole Soranzo’s group. The group focuses on the application of large-scale genomic analysis to unravel the spectrum of human genetic variation associated with cardiometabolic diseases.

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Best of both worlds

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Sanger Institute apprenticeship, bioinformatics, careers, degree, software developer, study min read

A degree apprenticeship offers the opportunity to earn whilst studying.

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Perfume, jazz and immunogenetics

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Communications Team autoimmune disease, human genetics, immune system, immunity, measles, meet the scientists min read

Dr Velislava Petrova is a Postdoctoral Fellow working in immunogenetics in Dr Carl Anderson’s group at the Sanger Institute. Currently she is working at the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Office of Innovation in Geneva

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Science on a bike

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 Sanger Institute cycling, education, malaria, public engagement min read

One man, one bike, and lots of genomics.

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Pioneering Computer Science

October 8, 2019October 7, 2019 Sanger Institute ada lovelace, bioinformatics, bletchley park, computing, grace hopper, margaret hamilton, software developer, stem, women in science min read

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

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Coding the Future

September 16, 2019September 19, 2019 Communications Team children, coding, computing, connecting science, digital making, engineering, mathematics, primary school, public engagement, raspberry pi foundation, schools, science, stem, technology min read

You’re never too young to start learning about DNA sequencing, software development and 3D printing.

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Flying to the Future

August 30, 2019 cc13sangeracuk malaria, meet the scientists min read

Dr Sophie Adjalley is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Marcus Lee’s research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her research focuses on investigating the underlying mechanisms of malaria.