Profile
Katy Brown
My CV
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Education:
PhD University of Nottingham, 2010-2014
MSc University of Edinburgh 2008-2009,
BSc Imperial College London 2004-2008
Trinity Catholic School, Leamington Spa 1996-2003 -
Qualifications:
PhD Computational Biology
MSc Genetics
BSc Biology,
4 A-levels (Biology, Chemistry, Spanish, Psychology)
2 AS-levels (ICT, Maths)
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Work History:
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Cambridge, 2017 – present
Postdoctral research associate, University of Oxford, 2014 – 2017Plus probably about 50 other places, as well as science I’ve stood on a roundabout counting how many cars go past, weighed out hundreds of slices of ham and called people selling a plumbing catalogue.
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Current Job:
Post-doctoral research associate – this is basically a day-to-day level scientist – I’m not a student but I’m also not in charge.
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My Typical Day:
I download data, write and run computer programs and drink coffee.
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Read more
I work on my computer. My work is different every day. I download huge amounts of RNA sequences from the internet and sort them out so my programs can understand them. Then I run programs on the data to look for viruses. This gives me big tables telling me the locations of virus-like bits of RNA and I write programs to find things out about them – what type of virus they are and how they are related to other viruses. I do all this in between lots of breaks to drink coffee, eat and chat!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would give the money to a charity which teaches kids in Africa to avoid HIV using football
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Overly talkative computer geek (OK, that’s four words)
What did you want to be after you left school?
A doctor, but luckily I didn’t get in!
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Nope, I was a big geek.
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