Katie Barr

Bioinformatician and developer with strong academic and commercial experience

Warrington

Research Expertise

Computer Science Applications

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Bioengineering

Pharmacology (medical)

Biochemistry (medical)

Genetics (clinical)

Pharmaceutical Science

Pharmacology

Biomedical Engineering

Biomaterials

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Condensed Matter Physics

About

Katie Barr is a bioinformatician with a strong background in computer science. She received her Ph.D in Quantum Information from the University of Leeds in 2013. She also holds an MSc in Mathematical logic and the theory of computation from the University of Manchester, and a BSc in Physics and Philosophy with study in Continental Europe from the University of Bristol. Katie has extensive experience working in the fields of bioinformatics and software development. She has worked as a scientific programmer at the Earlham Institute, a postdoctoral bioinformatician in the Nanomedicine group at the University of Manchester, and is now an Associate Principal Scientist in Bioinformatics at Kromek. Katie is passionate about using her knowledge and skills to improve the lives of others and she is dedicated to the advancement of science and technology. She believes in the power of collaboration and works to create meaningful partnerships between industry and academia.

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Publications

Simulation methods for quantum walks on graphs applied to formal language recognition

Natural Computing

2014

Nonreversal and nonrepeating quantum walks

Physical Review A

2014

Dynamic interactions and intracellular fate of label-free, thin graphene oxide sheets within mammalian cells: role of lateral sheet size

Nanoscale Advances

2021

Deep Tissue Translocation of Graphene Oxide Sheets in Human Glioblastoma 3D Spheroids and an Orthotopic Xenograft Model

Advanced Therapeutics

2020

Graphene Oxide Nanoscale Platform Enhances the Anti‐Cancer Properties of Bortezomib in Glioblastoma Models

Advanced Healthcare Materials

2022

Innate but Not Adaptive Immunity Regulates Lung Recovery from Chronic Exposure to Graphene Oxide Nanosheets

Advanced Science

2022

Full-bandwidth electrophysiology of seizures and epileptiform activity enabled by flexible graphene microtransistor depth neural probes

Nature Nanotechnology

2021

W2RAP: a pipeline for high quality, robust assemblies of large complex genomes from short read data

Unknown Venue

2017

Skip-mers: increasing entropy and sensitivity to detect conserved genic regions with simple cyclic q-grams

Unknown Venue

2017

Education

University of Leeds

Ph.D, Quantum Information / December, 2013

Leeds

University of Manchester

MSc, Mathematical logic and the theory of computation / December, 2009

Manchester

University of Bristol

BSc, Physics and Philosophy with study in Continental Europe / July, 2008

Bristol

Experience

Earlham Institute

Scientific programmer / November, 2015 — July, 2018

Genome assembly algorithm development

University of Manchester

Post doc bioinformatician in Nanomedicine group / June, 2019 — October, 2020

Wise range of bioinformatics tasks, mostly in RNASeq and Proteomics

Kromek

Associate Principal Scientist- Bioinformatics / November, 2020 — Present

Environmental metagenomics pipeline development for pathogen detection

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