My name is Jing Qi, and I am currently an MRes Biomedical Research student at Imperial College London. I am working on my second MRes project which focuses on Cancer and TCR sequencing and actively learning everything related to it.
I have a profound interest in understanding the gene regulatory mechanisms that drive phenotypic heterogeneity among individuals, particularly within disease contexts. I am interested in uncovering the functional impacts of genetic and epigenetic variants, thereby contributing to genomic medicine and driving progress in precision healthcare.
Before enrolling on 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 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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