geneticist
ISCO: 2131. Skills: 92. Essential: 53.
Essential skills
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- biology
- biotechnology
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct genome research
- conduct research across disciplines
- cryopreservation
- decide on type of genetic testing
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate genetic data
- evaluate research activities
- genetic engineering
- genetics
- genomics
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- interpret laboratory data in medical genetics
- interpret pedigree charts
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- medical genetics
- mentor individuals
- microbiology-bacteriology
- neoplasia
- operate open source software
- perform laboratory tests
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- report analysis results
- scientific literature
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- stem cells
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- tissue cytogenetics
- undertake research in medical genetics
- write scientific publications
Supporting skills
- advise on prenatal genetic diseases
- analyse blood samples
- apply blended learning
- archive scientific documentation
- assess environmental impact
- assist in clinical trials
- biological chemistry
- botany
- chemistry
- clinical cytology
- clinical immunopathology
- computational biology
- counsel patients on fertility treatments
- develop patient treatment strategies
- develop pharmaceutical drugs
- develop scientific research protocols
- develop scientific theories
- diagnose genetic diseases
- ecology
- embryology
- general medicine
- histology
- immunology
- liaise with genetic laboratories
- maintain genetic registers
- manage ethical dilemmas in genetic testing
- molecular biology
- multidisciplinary research
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- proteomics
- provide genetic counselling
- provide technical expertise
- research design
- take referrals for genetic testing
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- undertake genetic risk assessment
- virology
- write research proposals