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Warmest congratulations, Prof. Karoline Kuchenbaecker, on your well-deserved promotion to Full Professor! We are so proud to be in your team.

Data visualization is one of the most effective tools we as scientist have available to communicate the complex relationships we usually encounter in our research.
The need for effective and clear science communication has never been more apparent than in the current COVID19 era, where researchers are relied upon more than ever to inform policy makers. In this blog post I want to take a look back at the beginnings of data visualization in the domain of public health and elaborate on two of the most famous pioneers.

This blog post summarizes one of our bi-weekly journal club discussion of the paper titled “Delineating the Genetic Component of Gene Expression in Major Depression” by Lorenza Dall’Aglio, Cathryn M. Lewis and Oliver Pain. The group works in the department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London.

I don’t know which one had a bigger impact on us as new PhD students joining the Kuchenbaecker lab: having the chance to attend our first genetic conference and gain a deeper understanding of the Bayesian genetic fine mapping, polygenic risk scores and GWAS applications in various diseases across multiple populations, or learning to plan our time accordingly to enjoy a 5minutes delicious dinner on our way to the train station and still miss the train back to London?

The inaugural Genomics England Research Conference was held at Westminster Central Hall.

We are seeking an outstanding postdoctoral scientist with an interest in addressing emerging opportunities to generate important insights into cardiometabolic disease through the study of large genetically diverse populations.

This sunny Wednesday evening we headed out to Westminster to join the anti-prorogation protest. We actually had a pretty fantastic time. Sadly missing from the picture is Karoline.

We want to congratulate our friends and highly esteemed colleagues to their new appointments!

Our inaugural blog post is recapitulating our bi-weekly journal club. We came together and discussed the paper “Hierarchical clustering of gene-level association statistics reveals shared and differential genetic architecture among traits in the UK Biobank” by Melissa R. McGuirl and colleagues.

For two weeks we had the pleasure to host our lovely collaborators from the university hospital Cologne, Germany. Amazing research has been conducted but we also introduced our visitors to the local icecream parlour,