Career profile: postdoctoral scientist (malaria)
In this career profile, Sunil describes his role as a Postdoctoral Scientist. This is one of a series of career profiles exploring lots of different jobs in genomics.
About me:
Name: Sunil (Sunny)
Job title: Postdoctoral Scientist
What do I do: I work on understanding malaria transmission in endemic areas using single cell transcriptomics. I travel to malaria prevalent regions to take samples and analyse in the lab.
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Skills I use in my job:
Creativity
I face many challenges daily when working in a lab or tackling data. Being creative helps me overcome these problems.
Teamwork
Science progresses with teamwork. I feel lucky to work with talented scientists in my lab, who come from all around the world.
Communication
Presenting my work to my team and collaborators. Engaging with students to increase working knowledge of sciences.
Coding
I mostly use a programming language called R, and sometimes need to use python and bash scripting.