Mark Dunning
markdunning.bsky.social
Mark Dunning
@markdunning.bsky.social
mdbioinformatics.com

Freelance Bioinformatician / data scientist. FHEA and accredited carpentries.org instructor. When not using R and open source for high-throughput data analysis and visualisation, unhealthy obsession with charity shops and Vinyl.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer

👇Apply by 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I have a new website

mdbioinformatics.com

I’ll be putting various training materials on here - new and old

(created with quarto in RStudio)
Dr. Mark Dunning – Dr. Mark Dunning - Bioinformatician / Data Scientist
mdbioinformatics.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Earlier today, staff in five additional work areas were told they face targeted Voluntary Severence. This decision, and the meagre justifications that UEB are offering, show a complete lack of leadership or financial strategy.

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More threats to jobs, no long term vision. Vote YES to industrial action
At this point last year, the Vice-Chancellor was claiming that UEB’s approach to reducing staff expenditure over two academic years would allow the University to return to a surplus position by the 20...
ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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New podcast episode has just dropped on Spotify!
Listen to Dr Lewis Quayle and Ronak Naeemaee from Sheffield Hallam uncovering the power of open data👇

discussinghttps://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/shu-library-research-supp/episodes/Unlock-the-power-of-open-data-and-teach-open-research-e3663qq
Unlock the power of open data and teach open research by SHU Open Research Podcast
In this podcast episode, we talk to Dr Lewis Quayle, Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Analytics, and Ronak Naeemaee, our Doctoral Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University. Listen to their journey-...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Just over a week until our postdoc recruitment closes. If you want to use big datasets and computational methods to understand how the genome works and how that goes wrong in disease, apply!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR261/r...
Research Associate - SITraN at University of Sheffield
Apply for the Research Associate - SITraN role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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📢 We are looking for a PhD student to join us in April 2026! If you are interested in breast cancer pathology, epidemiology, and single-cell spatial data analysis, please apply.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51872/
Systems pathology of the breast tumour microenvironment in obesity - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Systems pathology of the breast tumour microenvironment in obesity in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I am excited to share our new Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network website! Please check it out at... sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... @fohsheffield.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social
Sheffield Pancreatic Cancer Research Network
Meet the Team
sites.google.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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⏳ Time’s running out! Submit your abstract for #EuroBioC2025 by 24 April.
Join us this Sept in Barcelona to share your research, meet the #Bioconductor community & explore all things #Bioinformatics + #RStats.

👉 eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...
April 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Bioconductor 3.21 released with 72 new software packages, for a total of 2341 software packages, 432 experiment data packages, 928 annotation packages, 30 workflows and 5 books bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats
Bioconductor - Bioconductor 3.21 Released
The Bioconductor project aims to develop and share open source software for precise and repeatable analysis of biological data. We foster an inclusive and collaborative community of developers and…
bioconductor.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Excited to share our latest work on monitoring response to treatment using ctDNA and shallow WGS using a Bayesian Model developed by Solon Karapanagiotis with @Carloscaldas1960.bsky.social, Emma Beddowes and @mortegaduran.bsky.social

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April 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Ola Rominiyi introducing the YCR funded FORT4RESS project to implement Tumour Treating Fields to wide range of cancers. Looks incredibly promising
April 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM