Samantha Johnson

I am a Healthcare Science Associate working in a Genetics Laboratory. I have a Masters in Human and Molecular Genetics and am keen to re-enter research.

Birmingham Women’s Hospital, West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory

Title: Healthcare Science Associate

• Conduct Magnetic Activated Cell Sorting of CD138+, CD3+, CD33+ and CD19+
• Follow Standard Operating Procedures accurately for all laboratory duties.
• Culture postnatal and oncology patient samples (blood and bone marrow).
• Conduct manual and robotic cytogenetic harvests.
• Laboratory housekeeping: checking and ordering stocks, batch records.
• Duty Technologist, checking and assigning tests to patient samples.

Title: Summer Intern

• Conduct an ELISA test of Fab antibody.
• Demonstration of Optilite for detection of Multiple Myeloma.
• Pack and run an ion exchange chromatography column.
• Demonstration of Tecan and mass spectrometers.

Title: Clinical Pre-screening Team for karyotype analysis

• Complete pre-karyotyping competence.
• Identify and accurately cut out chromosomes using Cytovision software.
• Karyotype bone marrow samples from Sheffield’s Children’s Hospital.
• Flag any abnormalities to supervisor e.g Philadelphia Chromosome t(9:22) consistent with CML.

University of Sheffield 2022 – 2023 

MSc Human and Molecular Genetics

Research Project: “Genomic Pre-screening improves outcome for patients with hematological malignancies.”

University of Birmingham 2018- 2022

BSc. Biological Sciences (Genetics), Fist Class (Honors)

Research Project: “Investigating the conjugation efficiency of TP114 in E. coli Nissle to develop plasmid curing technology using in vitro models of the human gut.”