Profile
Dave Baker
Vote Davo!!!!!!
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About Me:
I love work/life balance, working hard and playing hard. Love beech holidays to Greek islands and being with my family. I’ve played football all my life too and played against a few ex-premiership players over the years…
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Prepare and run DNA sequencing machines… sounds easy. We manipulate DNA to enable it to be visualised on a number of different machines. Including Illumina, PacBio and Nanopore. The last two are long read Next Generation sequencers… ask me about them!
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My Typical Day:
Check emails, go into lab, defrost reagents, quantify DNA, incubate DNA, bind DNA to a magnet, PCR, quantify, normalise DNA, prepare DNA Sequencer, load sequencer, monitor run and analyse results. Go to talks and network with other scientists.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Bring a group of children with special needs and/or learning difficulties from a local school to QIB for the day to include tours, talks and activities.
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Education:
Braunton School 83-88, North Devon College 88-91, Oxford Brookes 91-94
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Qualifications:
BTEC First/ National Diploma in Engineering, A level’s Maths and Physics, 1st Class degree in Mechanical Engineering
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Work History:
1995-2002 The Sainsbury Lab, 2002-2009 John Innes Centre, 2009 -2017 Earlham Institute, Food Forensics 2017-2018
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Current Job:
Head of Sequencing
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
dedicated, humorous, sporty
What did you want to be after you left school?
Footballer
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Always, once electrocuted a fellow pupil in science, long story...
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Vampire Weekend
What's your favourite food?
Spanish, Greek and Indian
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Health, happiness and to win the lottery!
Tell us a joke.
Why was the computer grumpy when he got home from work? He had a hard drive!
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