Katie Barr
Bioinformatician and developer with strong academic and commercial experience
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Simulation methods for quantum walks on graphs applied to formal language recognition
Natural Computing / Jul 31, 2014
Barr, K., Fleming, T., & Kendon, V. (2014). Simulation methods for quantum walks on graphs applied to formal language recognition. Natural Computing, 14(1), 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-014-9441-x
Nonreversal and nonrepeating quantum walks
Physical Review A / Apr 30, 2014
Proctor, T. J., Barr, K. E., Hanson, B., Martiel, S., Pavlović, V., Bullivant, A., & Kendon, V. M. (2014). Nonreversal and nonrepeating quantum walks. Physical Review A, 89(4). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.89.042332
Dynamic interactions and intracellular fate of label-free, thin graphene oxide sheets within mammalian cells: role of lateral sheet size
Nanoscale Advances / Jan 01, 2021
Chen, Y., Rivers-Auty, J., Crică, L. E., Barr, K., Rosano, V., Arranz, A. E., Loret, T., Spiller, D., Bussy, C., Kostarelos, K., & Vranic, S. (2021). Dynamic interactions and intracellular fate of label-free, thin graphene oxide sheets within mammalian cells: role of lateral sheet size. Nanoscale Advances, 3(14), 4166–4185. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1na00133g
Deep Tissue Translocation of Graphene Oxide Sheets in Human Glioblastoma 3D Spheroids and an Orthotopic Xenograft Model
Advanced Therapeutics / Oct 09, 2020
de Lázaro, I., Sharp, P., Gurcan, C., Ceylan, A., Stylianou, M., Kisby, T., Chen, Y., Vranic, S., Barr, K., Taheri, H., Ozen, A., Bussy, C., Yilmazer, A., & Kostarelos, K. (2020). Deep Tissue Translocation of Graphene Oxide Sheets in Human Glioblastoma 3D Spheroids and an Orthotopic Xenograft Model. Advanced Therapeutics, 4(1). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.202000109
Graphene Oxide Nanoscale Platform Enhances the Anti‐Cancer Properties of Bortezomib in Glioblastoma Models
Advanced Healthcare Materials / Nov 11, 2022
Sharp, P. S., Stylianou, M., Arellano, L. M., Neves, J. C., Gravagnuolo, A. M., Dodd, A., Barr, K., Lozano, N., Kisby, T., & Kostarelos, K. (2022). Graphene Oxide Nanoscale Platform Enhances the Anti‐Cancer Properties of Bortezomib in Glioblastoma Models. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 12(3). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202201968
Innate but Not Adaptive Immunity Regulates Lung Recovery from Chronic Exposure to Graphene Oxide Nanosheets
Advanced Science / Feb 15, 2022
Loret, T., de Luna, L. A. V., Fordham, A., Arshad, A., Barr, K., Lozano, N., Kostarelos, K., & Bussy, C. (2022). Innate but Not Adaptive Immunity Regulates Lung Recovery from Chronic Exposure to Graphene Oxide Nanosheets. Advanced Science, 9(11). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202104559
Full-bandwidth electrophysiology of seizures and epileptiform activity enabled by flexible graphene microtransistor depth neural probes
Nature Nanotechnology / Dec 22, 2021
Bonaccini Calia, A., Masvidal-Codina, E., Smith, T. M., Schäfer, N., Rathore, D., Rodríguez-Lucas, E., Illa, X., De la Cruz, J. M., Del Corro, E., Prats-Alfonso, E., Viana, D., Bousquet, J., Hébert, C., Martínez-Aguilar, J., Sperling, J. R., Drummond, M., Halder, A., Dodd, A., Barr, K., … Garrido, J. A. (2021). Full-bandwidth electrophysiology of seizures and epileptiform activity enabled by flexible graphene microtransistor depth neural probes. Nature Nanotechnology, 17(3), 301–309. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-01041-9
W2RAP: a pipeline for high quality, robust assemblies of large complex genomes from short read data
Feb 22, 2017
Clavijo, B. J., Garcia Accinelli, G., Wright, J., Heavens, D., Barr, K., Yanes, L., & Di-Palma, F. (2017). W2RAP: a pipeline for high quality, robust assemblies of large complex genomes from short read data. https://doi.org/10.1101/110999
Skip-mers: increasing entropy and sensitivity to detect conserved genic regions with simple cyclic q-grams
Aug 23, 2017
Clavijo, B. J., Accinelli, G. G., Yanes, L., Barr, K., & Wright, J. (2017). Skip-mers: increasing entropy and sensitivity to detect conserved genic regions with simple cyclic q-grams. https://doi.org/10.1101/179960
Education
University of Leeds
Ph.D, Quantum Information / December, 2013
University of Manchester
MSc, Mathematical logic and the theory of computation / December, 2009
University of Bristol
BSc, Physics and Philosophy with study in Continental Europe / July, 2008
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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