Emma Markham
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Education
2010 – 2011
MSc Human Molecular Genetics (Merit), Imperial College London
MSc Human Molecular Genetics (Merit), Imperial College London
2006 – 2009
BSc honours in Molecular Biology (2:1), Royal Holloway, University of London (Second year abroad at University of California, Irvine)
BSc honours in Molecular Biology (2:1), Royal Holloway, University of London (Second year abroad at University of California, Irvine)
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Employment History
Feb 2019 – current
Innovation and Skills Manager, BBSRC, Swindon, UK.
- Portfolio analysis of funded projects, determining gaps and how to engage those sectors
- Managing UK Aquaculture
- Supporting collaborations between industry and academia, to assist commercalisation and benefit realisation
Nov 2017 – Jan 2019
Portfolio Manager, Innovate UK, Swindon, UK.
- Creating and running business funding competitions under State Aid article 25 and 26
- Adapting our process for non-standard competition types, such as Expression of Interest, de minimis funding and Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) procurement contracts
- Managing internal and external stakeholders and ensuring project progression
- Chairing panels of assessors for funding competition interviews
- Managing the assessment of applications by external assessors
- Presenting competition details at conferences and via video conferencing
- Working with the Business Change and Dev team to improve our internal systems
- Supporting businesses to ensure their project starts on time
- Managing competitions to ensure delivery against timelines and milestones
July 2017 – Nov 2017
- Managing the social media accounts, creating new content and scheduling
- Creating and issuing press releases, applying for trademarks
- Improving Google Adword performance and SEO
- Arranging email marketing campaigns and using analytics to run focused marketing campaigns
- Organising conferences, designing and ordering promotional materials
- Redesigning the company logo and sales materials
- Managing a variety of projects, including the refurbishment and relocation of the business
July 2016 – July 2017
Project Manager & Operations Specialist Europe, Addgene DNA repository, LGC London.
· Customer visits and surveys to improve our service and grow the market in key countries
· Leading marketing initiatives targeted at the European region
· Designing and managing cross team projects, focused on improving the operational efficiency within the company to allow for fast growth and expansion
· Designing new protocols, for example the handling of overdue invoices
· Streamlining internal processes to save the company time, money and resources.
Mar 2014 – July 2016
Operations Assistant, Addgene DNA repository, Based at LGC Teddington, London.
· Establishing and running the European branch of Addgene
· Extensive experience assisting customers over the phone and by email.
· Designing graphics for the website and posters using Adobe Illustrator
· Creating new self service resources on the website
· Presenting talks at universities and running booths at conferences
· Extensive networking and relationship building
· Traveling throughout Europe to meet with scientists, collect materials and promote Addgene
Mar 2013 – Oct 2013
Research Assistant, Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics, Brisbane.
· Genome amplification using PCR, QC using Nanopore and Affymetrix BioChip, Next-Gen sequencing including Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq
· Extensive experience using IGV genome analysis software to improve the accuracy calls of custom algorithms
· Handling confidential patient data and other secure documents
· Working from protocols and SOPs
· Analyzing results and data, producing figures and statistics for presentation
· Acted as the department’s volunteer ambassador, explaining the science being carried out.
Oct 2011 – Dec 2012
Research Assistant, Retroscreen Virology, London.
· Worked with human and viral samples in Cat2 laboratories, to GLP and GCP.
· Responsible for maintaining cell culture, including HeLa, HEP2, MDCK and MRC-5 cell lines.
· Carrying out viral assays, such as Plaque assay, DFA, HA, and HAI
· Working from and updating SOPs
· Handling confidential documents for clinical trials, working to maintain anonymised customer data
· Created new storage system to handle higher levels of samples
· Additional roles including acting as the department Volunteer Recruitment Officer, First Aid, Fire Marshal, established and chairing departmental seminars.
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Additional skills
- Basic programming and coding experience, including R, SAS and Python
Interests
· Creating Wikipedia articles for missing women in STEM, as part of the Women in Red project to increase diversity of biographies on Wikipedia
· Volunteer with STEM Ambassadors, 500 women scientists, and Stemettes, to encourage young women to pursue careers in STEM and act as a role model.
· Avid reader, completing one book a week for the past 5 years.
· Finalist for the Emerging Leader national award 2018 by Forward Ladies
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Publications
Philip Carpenter, Argyrios Ziogas , PhD; Emma M Markham; Alegria S Cantillep; Rui Yan, Ph.D.; Hoda Anton-Culver, Ph.D. “Laminin 332 Expression and Prognosis in Breast Cancer” Human Pathology (17 August 2018)
Patch AM, Christie EL, Etemadmoghadam D, Garsed DW, George J, Markham E, et al. “Whole-genome characterization of chemoresistant ovarian cancer” Nature 521, 489-94 (28 May 2015)
Nicola Waddell, Marina Pajic, Ann-Marie Patch, David K. Chang, Emma Markham, et al. “Whole genomes redefine the mutational landscape of pancreatic cancer” Nature 518, 495–501 (26 February 2015)