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In Biochemistry and Biology

Job · Molecular Biology

Research Assistant - Luisi Group (Fixed Term)

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Support experimental research on delivering nucleic acids into mitochondria in Ben Luisi’s laboratory, supervised by Pedro Rebelo-Guiomar. The role develops delivery methods in an interactive biochemistry research group. Funding is available from 15 January to 5 December 2027 in the first instance.

Seminar · Data Science

Inclusive Data Science

Dr Anjali Mazumder, Alex Hepburn, Dr Malvika Sharan · The Turing Institute, University of Bristol

Wed, Jun 16, 2021 · 13:00 UTC

A single person can be the source of billions of data points, whether these are generated from everyday internet use, healthcare records, wearable sensors or participation in experimental research. This vast amount of data can be used to make predictions about people and systems: what is the probability this person will develop diabetes in the next year? Will commit a crime? Will be a good employee? Is of a particular ethnicity? Predictions are simply represented by a number, produced by an algorithm. A single number in itself is not biased. How that number was generated, interpreted and subse