Stewart McKay is swapping his cycle commute from Balerno for the golf course at Harburn in West Calder and fly fishing at Threipmuir Reservoir after more than 40 years at the IGC. Over the years, he has seen the Institute move through many phases of development and remembers staff playing volleyball on a field which […]

The IGC Technician Training Fund, a pilot project supported by core funding from the MRC, was set up to enable the training and development of technical staff. All IGC technicians can apply for funds on an individual or group basis to attend a conference or workshop, visit a lab to learn a new technique, or […]

By Daniel Thédié My one-week visit to the Institute of Genetics and Cancer was a great week filled with new experiences and interesting discussions. I am a postdoc at the School of Biological Sciences, working on DNA repair and bacteria. I use a lot of microscopy and image analysis, and I have been wanting to […]

Facility Manager Lizzie Freyer works alongside Flow Cytometry Specialist Michael Rennie in a state-of-the-art lab in the new North East Building, which they moved to in April from three separate rooms in the West Building. What was your route to becoming a technician? I studied in Germany and by degree I’m a Biotechnology Engineer. I […]

Jonnie works as a Zebrafish technologist looking after several thousand tropical fish spread over three rooms on the ground floor of the Central Building. What was your route to becoming a technician? I did a PhD in Developmental Biology in Aberdeen looking at the mechanism of early eye development. When I came back to Edinburgh, […]

Helen works as Histology Service Manager in the first-floor lab in the South Building of the IGC, running the histology service for users within the university and outwith, including students from other universities who don’t have histology services and some private companies. What was your route to becoming a technician? I have been here for […]

A change in career direction saw James Iremonger switch from working as a project supervisor at a market research company to his role as a Light Microscopy Technician at IGC. He is part of the Advanced Imaging Resource team – based on the ground floor of the Central building – working alongside Head of Facility […]

Tucked away on the ground floor of the West Building, Stephen Brown and Jeff Joseph are the experts behind the in-house DNA sequencing facility providing Sanger sequencing to all IGC researchers and their collaborators. Facility Manager Stephen started working at IGC 20 years ago after completing his Biological Sciences degree and taking time out to […]

Facility Manager Alison and her Research Technician colleague Camilla Drake work in a bright south facing lab on the first floor of the South Building housing cutting edge protein, antibody and transcriptomic microarray facilities together with a family of cacti called Dr Spike Pickles, Prick Jagger, Cactniss Evergreen and Maximus Cacticus.   What was your […]