Catherine Chahrour
Postdoctoral Researcher at MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCatherine Chahrour is a postdoctoral researcher and computational biologist specializing in chromatin biology and cancer epigenomics, with four years of research experience using deep learning and interpretable machine learning to unravel how MLL-AF4 and other chromatin complexes dysregulate enhancers in leukemia. She combines hands-on genomics—RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq—and pipeline engineering with a track record of training researchers in reproducible analysis practices. Her work blends sequence-based DNA modeling, multimodal transformers, and methylation analyses to pinpoint functional regulatory variants and disrupted mechanisms in cancer. Catherine’s path into science is atypical: she transitioned from eight years in global travel operations and client-facing roles while completing a BSc and an MSc with distinction, bringing uncommon product-minded communication and project management skills to academic research. Based at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, she also teaches bioinformatics workflows and emphasizes interpretable models that translate complex data into actionable biological insight.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Natural Sciences, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Natural Sciences, First Class Honours at The Open UniversityDPhil, Genomic Medicine and Statistics, DPhil, Genomic Medicine and Statistics at University of OxfordMSc, Applied Genomics, Distinction, MSc, Applied Genomics, Distinction at Imperial College London
Github Skills (10)
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
seq10
conda10
forge10
package-management10
bioconda9
pipeline8
chip-seq8
conda-forge6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CChahrour/SeqNado
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Milne Lab ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq pipeline
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
CChahrour/staged-recipes
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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