Careers spotlight – Ioannis Tsagakis, Journal editor

Meet Ioannis: Ioannis started his PhD at the University of Leeds in 2017 studying the molecular mechanisms of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) function in X chromosome inactivation across mammalian gestation evolution (see more here). He is now working as an Editor for two scientific journals published by FEBS Press, Molecular Oncology and FEBS Open Bio. We asked him about his career and any advice that he has for current students …

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Careers Spotlight: Rachael Evans, Trainee Patent Attorney

Rachael Evans was a White Rose DTP student in the 2014 intake at the University of York. Rachael was one of the alumni panelists who came to the 2019 Away Day to speak to us about their career – for Rachael, this is patent law at Mathys & Squire. I caught up with her recently to speak about how she got into the profession and how she’s finding it!

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Careers Spotlight: Oliver Severn, Singer Instruments

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In this series of blogs we have been contacting past BBSRC-funded students to talk about their careers after the PhD. The aim is to show you the variety of jobs a PhD can help you obtain!

In this second post we talked to Oliver Severn, who is a Quality, S&S and Research Manager at Singer Instruments. Ollie completed his PhD in 2018 at the University of Nottingham. He studied Quorum Sensing System B and how it affects the production of butanol by Clostridium acetobutylicum.

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