Juliet Luft

IRR Research Data Analyst

Biography

Background

After completing undergraduate and masters degrees in genetics, I undertook a PhD at the MRC Human Genetics Unit (IGC, University of Edinburgh) with Martin Taylor. My work focused on investigating predisposition to cancer in humans and mice by applying population genetics to genomic data. I continued my work with the Taylor lab as a PostDoc, using whole genome and whole transcriptome sequence data to characterise the influence of the innate immune system on somatic mutation acquisition in a mouse model of liver cancer. I then moved to the Centre for Inflammation Research (IRR, University of Edinburgh), to work as a PostDoc for Prakash Ramachandran, where I analysed single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing data from the livers of mice and humans, to characterise the immune environment underpinning liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease.

I currently work as a bioinformatician in the IRR Single Cell & Spatial Biology Facility.

Qualifications

PhD: Oncogenic Selection of Germline and Somatic Variants University of Edinburgh, UK

MRes: Medical Genetics (Distinction) Newcastle University, UK

BSc Hons: Biological Sciences, Genetics (First) University of Edinburgh, UK

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