Dr Katie Kerr 🧬

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

I'd like a Pikatube for the lab!!!

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.

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

Happy #RareDiseaseDay2023! @RareDiseaseNI. #RARDTAC #RAiN @RAiNAllIreland Looking forward to a series of events raising awareness of #RareDisease today & meeting friends 👍

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

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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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]

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

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).

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

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 :-)

The @RenalArtsGroup are very excited to be part of this year's @niscifest programme!

*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/indev…

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

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/articl…

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We recommend Shari Lapena's Not A Happy Family! A fast-paced, gripping family saga. It's giving Knives Out energy #AskPenguin bit.ly/3ijqONM

@PenguinUKBooks Mystery books please!🥳

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