PhD in Bioinformatics

We are recruiting a PhD student to integrate data-driven methods with NMR spectroscopy to enhance the characterisation of cell culture media and metabolites, increasing throughput and reducing manual intervention. This is an EPSRC funded Industrial Doctoral Landscape Award PhD project and is co-supervised by Dr. Christian Ludwig at the University of Birmingham and Dr. Caitlin Evans at GSK. The main part of the project will be done at the University of Birmingham, but the student will also have the opportunity to be based at GSK for a minimum of 3 months./nThis interdisciplinary approach will involve experimental optimisation, leveraging computational tools, statistical modelling, and emerging AI/ML applications to streamline and accelerate the workflow for complex mixtures and metabolomics samples./nAll computational methods and algorithms will be implemented as part of the python based MetaboLabPy platform (https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo15010048, https://github.com/ludwigc/metabolabpy, https://github.com/ludwigc/qtmetabolabpy, https://github.com/ludwigc/metabolabpytools). Therefore, this research project requires the student to up-skill their Python knowledge, and to be confident in writing and implementing code alongside extracting information, trends, and patterns from large datasets./nLocation: Birmingham.