Dr Simone Webb
@SimSci9
Coder & academic 🧬 Defying RA 🇯🇲
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Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).
I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London
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qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…
I am excited to share my most recent work from Iain Cheeseman’s lab, in which we harness context-specific genetic requirements to identify a new regulator of cohesin and genome integrity! Please join me for a 🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🔈 I’m now Interim Head of CellGen programme Wellcome Sanger Institute where Mo Lotfollahi has officially started as group leader 🎊
Join our team to use Human Cell Atlas datasets and ML/AI to create foundation models
Deadline 14/04, pls share tinyurl.com/2p98cz8s
My lab is hiring a postdoc! We use state-of-the-art genomics, single-cell and spatial approaches to explore cancer initiation and evolution. Come join us at MD Anderson Cancer Center! Please share and RT.
jobs.mdanderson.org/search/jobdeta…
Academic workplaces are still failing Black women; they must do better: Professor Nicola Rollock nature.com/articles/d4158…
Representatives of the NIHR Newcastle BRC Skin Disease, Oral Disease & Immunogenomics theme presenting key outcomes including PPIE engagement, fellowship outcomes & research developments in an interactive session at Celebration of Newcastle BRC Research Excellence today. #BRCresearch
📢 Glad to share our piece 'AI and the democratization of knowledge' Scientific Data. Data is the new oil—ripe for reuse. But what does it take to reuse? it's about making data interpretable by all, including AI, the ultimate non-specialist! #OpenScience nature.com/articles/s4159…
Starting this #IWD 2024 warmed by this beautiful tapestry illustrating the varied professional talents and achievements of Black British women 😍
Thank you Black Ballad, & happy 10th birthday 🎊
#BBxGoogle #IWD #IWD 24
📢We are hiring 2 #Postdocs to lead new research projects: 1 with expertise in #bioinformatics ( #transcriptomics or image analysis) 1 with expertise in hiPSCs and #organoids Funded for 3-5 years.
More information & instructions for application➡️ shorturl.at/sIQU9
Fantastic feature on the one and only Professor Cassandra Extavour Cassandra Extavour Harvard University HHMI NEWS in Quanta Magazine
'A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity'
quantamagazine.org/a-multitalente…
A big thank you to Haniffa Lab past and present Wellcome Sanger Institute Newcastle University NIHR Newcastle BRC & EFIS British Society for Immunology