Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Minchington PhD, MSc, BSc. Enthusiastic Researcher with strong computational and experimental skills.
Employment
November 2020 - Current
Postdoctoral Research Associate. IST Austria, Austria.
September 2019 - October 2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate. The University of Manchester UK
2014 - 2015
Bar staff. Weather Spoons, Congleton. UK. Supporting myself during my MSc.
2013 - 2014
Lab Demonstrator. Aston University, Birmingham UK.
2012
Research Assistant. Vista Optics, Widnes UK.
Education
2015-2019
PhD (Wellcome Funded) The University of Manchester, Manchester UK. Nancy Papalopulu and Sam Griffiths-Jones. Integrating properties of oscillatory genes in a bioinformatic screen reveals novel periodically expressed human proteins.
2014-2015
MSc Cell Biology, The University of Manchester, Manchester UK.
2006-2009
BSc Biomedical Science, specialising in Neuroscience. The University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK.
Skills
Project planning
I planned my PhD project combining themes from two of my rotation years into a novel project.
Tissue culture
Cell culture of (hESC, MCF7), nucleofection, CRISPR/Cas9 endogenous Knock-In line production.
Molecular biology
Cloning, probe synthesis, FISH, smFISH.
Model organisms
Drosophila melanogaster and Danio rerio
Imaging techniques
A wide range of microscopy experience (confocal, wide field) image processing, Imaris and the development of custom image processing pipelines.
Programming
Python, R and some MATLAB
Bioinformatics
RNA-seq (library prep and analysis), ChIP-seq, sequence alignment.
Data analysis
Integrating large datasets, development of analysis pipelines.
Statistics
Selection and application of relevant/appropriate techniques and methodology.
Communication
Presentation, poster design, lab meetings, public engagement.
Event planning
I created the GRIND (Gene Regulation Imaging and Network Dynamics) seminar series and was also involved in the organisation and running of 3 student conferences.
Adobe suite
Proficient user of Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro.
Training
Writing
The Royal Society: Writing About Your Research
Communication skills
VOX coaching: Communication Skills Training: Presentation, Interview and Networking skills.
Public engagement
The University of Manchester (organised by Wellcome): Public Engagement Training.
Activities and Interests
GRIND seminar series.
Due to the lack of a seminar series that represented the research interests of our labs, Caroline Hoppe and myself developed the GRIND (Gene regulation, Imaging and Network Dynamics.) seminar series. The aim of this series was to present incomplete work and stories and encourage discussion between labs with similar interests in quantitate analysis of gene expression.
President of the Postgraduate Society.
I was the President of the Postgraduate Society, FBMH, University of Manchester 2017.
Conference organiser.
During my Masters and PhD I was a member of the faculty postgraduate society. One of the events I was involved with every year was the organisation and execution of the Postgrad Conference. This was a conference for students from Manchester and other Universities to present their work in a friendly environment to other students.
Public engagement.
Throughout my time at Manchester I have been involved in the public engagement activities of the lab. I have also, as part of public engagement training, developed and delivered a public engagement activity at the Universities “Science Spectacular”.
Photography.
Photography has been my main hobby since 2006. I really enjoy capturing moments and getting deep into the technical side of photography and the equipment. This has also meant I have been lab photographer on our various lab retreats.