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title: "Wellcome Sanger Institute"
description: "During my undergraduate degree, I did a placement year at the Wellcome Sanger Institute: a research institute at the forefront of genomics research."
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/work/sanger"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Work"
location: "Cambridge, UK"
website: "https://www.sanger.ac.uk/"
dates: "2006-06-01 to 2007-08-01"
---

# Wellcome Sanger Institute

> During my undergraduate degree, I did a placement year at the Wellcome Sanger Institute: a research institute at the forefront of genomics research.

In between the second and third years of my degree at the University of Bristol,
I worked as an industrial placement student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

I worked under Prof Panos Deloukas in the Sanger Genotyping Platform Group (Team 67).
We used the illumina MasArray genotyping platform and I spent most of my time
validating variants using the Sequenom MassArray platform.
This gave confidence about sample identity in the large scale projects that we were running.

The day-to-day lab work involved a lot of high-throughput genomics lab work.
I ran thousands of PCR reaction plates, became very familiar with different type of Taq enzyme
and spent a lot of time pipetting.
In addition to this, I also worked with the robotics platforms and some analysis work.

I was lucky enough to be involved in several papers coming out of the group,
including a [_Nature Genetics_ paper in 2007](https://phil.ewels.co.uk/publications/2008/fisher-nature-genetics)
and a [2008 study](https://phil.ewels.co.uk/publications/2008/baker-journal-of-clinical-microbiology)
on tracing _Salmonella enterica_ spread using genetic varation.

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt