DrMark Dunning

I’m a Bioinformatician with a background in Mathematics and Computer Science with over 20 years of experience. I specialise in the visualisation and interpretation of complex data and have a wealth of experience in making results accessible and easy to interrogate for wet-lab biologists. I also have experience in developing and delivering training courses and workships, along with formal teaching.

I obtained my PhD in the Statistics and Computational Biology group of Simon Tavaré at the University of Cambridge / Cancer Research Uk. During this time, I developed the beadarray Bioconductor package for the analysis of Illumina microarray data. My PhD thesis is available online, should you be interested.

After my PhD, I worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst within the Bioinformatics Core; consulting on, and assisting in, the analysis on all types of high-throughput datasets. During this time I worked on studies to define subtypes of Breast and Prostate cancer and established pipelines for the analysis of whole-genome and exome resequencing data.

I held the role of “Bioinformatics Training Coordinator” in the Bioinformatics Core of Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Institute. I organised, developed and facilitated Bioinformatics training courses to teach computational and analytical skills to wet-lab biologists - along with a series of “Bioinformatics Summer Schools” for Cancer Research funded staff nationwide.

From October 2017 I established the Bioinformatics Core at The University of Sheffield which ran until August 2025. Along with supporting clinicians and researchers across campus, I also contributed to various MSC and undergraduate programs as well as obtaining training / teaching qualifications from thecarpentries and AdvanceHE (FHEA)