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Senior Evidence Review @UKHSA, Public Health & Clinical Response | Visiting scholar @CPH_QUB, genomics & rare disease focus | T1D 💉 | she/her |

Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined January 2018
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Lectureship in #molecular #epidemiology has been advertised with our Team @CPH_QUB.  Please share widely! Closing date 25th April 2023 Job profile (qub.ac.uk)  @AcademicJobs #DataScience #Epigenetic #Genetic #Research @MHLSQUB #Multiomic
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Finishing off a presentation for tomorrow for @QUBelfast final year medical students, focusing on #RareDisease . These are 3 “principles for practise” that I want them to take away. Not just relevant for rare disease patients.
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Feeling Happy-Sad after my last day working for @qubelfast, before moving to my new job with @ukhsa! Going to miss my team but excited for new adventures 🥳 @ClaireHill_ @a_j_mcknight @lsmyth_1 @AshleenCrowe – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Happy #RareDiseaseDay2023! @RareDiseaseNI. #RARDTAC #RAiN @RAiNAllIreland Looking forward to a series of events raising awareness of #RareDisease today & meeting friends 👍
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
RAiN @RAiNAllIreland is launching a monthly online webinar series to bring together interdisciplinary researchers on the Island of Ireland to discuss challenges and solutions in #RareDiseases. Register free for the upcoming webinar series via this link: shorturl.at/sCKU3
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Delighted to share in the #LoveQUB staff excellence awards. Recognition of fabulous achievements- well done to all finalists & the winners in each category! Some of our shortlisted #RareDiseaseNI @CPH_QUB team at today’s ceremony. #teamwork #collaboration
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Canva is one of the most powerful apps for academic work. But many academics don't know about it. Here's a latest Canva feature that will make your work simpler and life easier...(way easier):
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green birdflower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae. Its flower strongly resembles a bird attached by its beak to the central stalk of the flowerhead [read more: buff.ly/2I1gzXS]
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Delighted to have an opportunity to catch up with @NIKRFcharity Team members with some of our local @CPH_QUB kidney researchers today. Strong supporters of #RenalResearchNI…with apols to those who can’t be tagged in twitter pic! #KidneyDisease #KidneyTransplant #RareDiseaseNI
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
If you work in a Clinical Genetics department that recruited to the 100k Genome Project I *highly* recommend encouraging one of your clinical genetics trainees to review the top 5 exomiser results in your undiagnosed patients (particularly the trios). – at Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
The story of Ingeborg Rapoport, who, in 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one ow.ly/mYf330oqjSB
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Delighted to share #RareDiseaseNI are one of four teams shortlisted for @QUBelfast's ‘Making an Impact’ award. ~200 nominations were received, so an excellent achievement. Multidisciplinary teamwork! Thanks everyone who helps research drive improvements for #RareDisease :-)
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*NEWS* @NICEComms publishes their draft for public consultation on #ClosedLoops in #T1Diabetes Note: This is NOT a final version-feedback via process outlined Thank you to all concerned for the work so far 2023 is here 😊 @drpratikc @WilmotEmma nice.org.uk/guidance/indevel…
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
Well done student Rebecca Irvine & @_KatieKerr_ helping create this to illustrate actions from the #RareDiseaseNI plan 22/23.👇 @NI_RDP @healthdpt @publichealthni @QUBResearchPol @CPH_QUB @UlsterUni @MHLSQUB @sduguez_lab @speccymcspec @christinezoo @RareDiseasesIE @rarediseaseuk
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Our EWAS comparing the methylation profiles pre and post-kidney transplant is online! We have established an important baseline for future EWAS studying methylation profiles associated with post-transplant complications.📚 @a_j_mcknight @KRUK @CPH_QUB sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
A gentle reminder
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Dr Katie Kerr 🧬 retweeted
no data scientist has mastered all 5: 1. R 2. Python 3. javascript 4. making eye contact 5. Microsoft Excel
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Another great day of sharing research insights, experiences and findings and of course further collaboration with colleagues at Day 2 of our Social Epigenetics Workshop @UM_PSC @UM_SRC @hrsisr @colterm @jfaul99 @QUBelfast @CPH_QUB @NICOLA_QUB @a_j_mcknight – at Dublin City, Ireland
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