Mark W Watson Ph.D. B.Sc.

My expertise and research interests lay in the following areas.

• Molecular biotechnology and genomics, particularly in the human bacterial and viral fields
• Sanger sequencing
• Second generation sequencing Illumina MiSeq
• Third generation sequencing Oxford Nanopore MinIon
• Liquid handling workstations for assay automation
• NATA accreditation
• ASHI accreditation
• Real time PCR
• Digital droplet PCR
• High throughput PCR
• LIMS systems development
• Single cell genomics and transcriptomics
• Data analysis software and data visualisation tools
• Immunoassay design and execution
• Flow cytometry
• Physical containment facilities
• HLA typing (accredited)
• T cell receptor typing
• Targeted Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis
• ERAP typing
• KIR typing
• Microbiome analysis
• Viral integration site analysis
• Bacterial genome sequencing
• Viral genome sequencing
• Biotechnology
• Genetic engineering