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@SerenaNikZainal

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Professor of Genomic Medicine | #NHS | needs regular snacks | delivers an effective roundhouse kick | Though she be but little, she is fierce

Cambridge, England
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Wow! Thrilled & hugely grateful for this immense honour 😌 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture 🧬! Thank you @royalsociety ⁩ ! Thank you 🙏 to all that have taught, supported, pushed & mentored me. So appreciative! My wonderful TEAM 💖- this is for us!! 1/
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
PAPER OUT!!! 😄💃🏻🕺💃🏻 A systematic CRISPR screen defines mutational mechanisms underpinning signatures caused by replication errors & endogenous DNA damage ⁦ @NatureCancer ⁩ ⁦ @xueqing_zou ⁩ ⁦ @BillSkarnes ⁩ ⁦ @GenomicsEngland ⁩ 1/
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Mum 🤍💖 1946-2020 For 27 years, I had afternoon chats with her Every.Single.Weekend. Suddenly.. she’s not there... 😔😭 #metastaticBC makes weekends hard for me My rock, confidante, grounding force. Her quote after any major paper: #AndThisBenefitsMankindHow 😆🥺😭😚
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
8 years
epidemiology enjoying an exquisite moment
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Two roles available in our team😁! Postdoc & RA. Looking 4: decent human hungry to learn just reflective listener team-player able 2 treat others the way they'd expect 2 b treated themselves. EVERYTHING else can be learned😉
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
This is poor ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ 1) Use her title: Professor. Not Ms. 2) she had the courage to be honest, many bury the truth - your article style (shaming) doesn’t help 3) many a titled, white male in UK academia have done much worse & u look the other way
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
My WhatsApp, FB & twitter accounts have exploded! Please forgive delayed responses! Altho’ I am going to🇨🇭pick up this #JosefSteiner award, it represents collective effort, laughter, tears, enthusiasm, passion, energy, hard work from my wonderful #TEAM 😭 #WishUWereWithMe
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
OMG... Damn you autocorrect!! I submitted a session proposal for a conference. Have just spotted autocorrect changed a word in the proposed title for my Invited Guest from: “Omics” to “Comics” 😳 It says : Translating COMICS into biological insights. 😱😱😱
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Yay! Our review is paper out!!🤓🥳🕺💃🕺💃 Hope it is useful for the community! #MutationalSignatures : Emerging concepts, caveats and clinical applications Access it here: 🙌 @GeneChChKoh @_ADegasperi @xueqing_zou @SophieMomen
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Diary of a #UKimmigrant In an amazing twist, thru the kindness of people I’ve never met, I have been able to get home to my mom in 🇲🇾 on compassionate grounds, in spite of #covid19 Thank you so very much 🙏😭! So so so very grateful to be getting this #precioustime with her
@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Diary of a #UKimmigrant My mum is dying in Malaysia. I've been denied entry 2 see her in her last weeks of life. #BrokenRightNow When my dad died in an accident, I didn't make it home in time to see him b4 he was buried. #ThingsYouTake4Granted #ThingsWeSacrifice
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Our paper is out! 😊 Showcasing the complexity of #mutationalsignatures A practical framework and online tool for mutational signature analyses show intertissue variation and driver dependencies ⁦ @NatureCancer ⁩ 👇 1/
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Our paper on clinical value of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) is out! @NatureMedicine #SCANB @Cambridge_Uni @lunduniversity Can our mutational-signature-based algorithm HRDetect predict outcome? Find out👇 1/
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Paper accepted!!!! 💃🏻🕺💃🏻🕺
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
@alexia_zz
Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou
3 years
💫 In the June issue of @NatureCancer : #MutationalSignatures of DNA damage, evolution of #TherapyResistance in breast cancer, POLQ #DrugDiscovery , #RNAmodifications in cancer progression + the latest addition in our #SeriesOnCancerTherapy Don't miss it!
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Diary of a #UKimmigrant My mum is dying in Malaysia. I've been denied entry 2 see her in her last weeks of life. #BrokenRightNow When my dad died in an accident, I didn't make it home in time to see him b4 he was buried. #ThingsYouTake4Granted #ThingsWeSacrifice
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
It’s OFFICIAL!!!! CHOCOLATE FOR BREAKFAST IS THE WAY TO GO!!!! 🍫 🤤
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
10 months
Pregnancy triggers transient olfactory neurogenesis a.k.a New mums make new neurons to smell their babies 🐭 How cool is that 😎 ⁦ @ScienceMagazine
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
Pleasure & privilege 2 discuss our research on @BBCBreakfast Thank you 2 thousands of people that conceived, planned & executed #100kGenomes project, so that we could analyse >12k NHS #WholeGenomes #CollectiveEndeavour And my wonderful TEAM, u r amazing!💖🙏🎉 #WellDoneAll 💪🏼
@SirBillTaylor
Sir Bill Taylor
2 years
@SerenaNikZainal & @BBCBenThompson with @NinaWarhurst had a fascinating engaging exploration of cancer & its nature on @BBCBreakfast !
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Wow. 👇 is a story you have to read! 💪🏼 Casual mentions of what tough moments she must have had to endure. “titles, promotions, older men, power, it all gets in the way…” Her impact is on millions!🤩
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Admitted as an Honorary Fellow of my alma mater @MECCambridge today. Feeling super grateful to be part of this community. Thank you!!😊 PS: Cambridge gowns are a minefield... It's an IQ test to figure out where to to put your hands😂 (Good deep pockets for hiding stuff tho')
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
@phylogenomics Cancel Research!!
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Serena Nik-Zainal
9 months
This will decimate UK academia
@10DowningStreet
UK Prime Minister
9 months
We’re increasing the minimum earnings threshold for skilled workers by 48% to £38,700, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Less than 24hrs later… 12-15 year olds will get vaccines! 🥲😭 YAY to Chris Whitty for stepping in!! 👍👏🏼 #leadership
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
29th October. My dad died suddenly on this day 15 years ago. I didn’t make it home in time to see him before he was buried. My mum was diagnosed with #mbc on this day 8 years later. There’s them👇 enjoying life! 🥲 Live your best life folks! 💖
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Paper accepted!!!! WOO HOO!! 🕺💃🏻🕺💃🏻🕺💃🏻 (No matter how old I get, it’s still very exciting to get this sort of news!! It just makes me wanna BOOOOOGIEEE... ) 😆🥳😃😄😎
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
I love that @Kings_College have a wildflower area now…. It’s so charming & lovely 💗😍
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Paper out! ☺️💃🏻 Lovely collab with #NickTurner team ⁦ @ICR_London ⁩ using #HRDetect algorithm + functional #HRassay in #RIO #clinicaltrial on #TNBC HR deficiency & PARP inhibition activity in primary triple negative BC ⁦ @NatureComms ⁩ 1/
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Thank you #reviewer2 !!!! 🕺💃🕺💃 So rare to get a plain positive review. You've just made two people @xueqing_zou and I, very happy little bunnies... 😁😭🤩😁 🙏 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃🕺 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 😆😆
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
That’s us sealing a pact on this day yonks ago 💖 Hope you are ok holding the fort ... with the kids... 🤪.. while I am away. Just feed them pizza sometimes & take away the XBox controls from time to time...
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Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Monday morning news!👇😳 Thank you, #Agong ! 🙏 #AmpunTuanku How awesome... the week can only gonna go downhill from here! 😆🙈😂 #DJSCRP2019
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 months
PAPER OUT!!🥳 It's on kids with #XP A DNA repair defective syndrome where patients are unable to fix UV damage in skin. Used 2 die as kids from Skin Cancer. No longer, thx 2 surveillance! But now some live 2 adulthood & develop early-onset dementia.. 1/n
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Luck. So much of what happens in #academia is sheer, damn luck. Of course hard work and mentoring and all that, yes, but a stroke of good luck sure helps
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 months
PAPER ACCEPTED !! 🥳 This one means a lot😭 (It’s not in #cancer ) It is in early-onset #neurodegeneration in young adults with DNA repair defects… So humbling.. that these kids r 2day saved from cancer, but succumb to neurology as young adults… we set out to understand why..
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Signature 18 walks into a bar. The other Signatures say: 😱 What’s happened to you? Why have you got so many C>A/G>T mutations? Sig 18: what can I say… Oxidants happen. #SignatureDadJokes 🤓
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
@EsteeTorok @Cambridge_Uni Thank you!!! 😁🥳🎉 Just seen the confirmation !!
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Oh my word. What an inspiring thread! 👍🏼 THIS is the UK I believe in. Medics, parents, teachers and media that care enough to make a positive change from the ground up!! Go Matt! Love it! If we can't vaccinate our kids, at least fund schools to do this below!
@mjb302
Matt Butler
3 years
How can schools reduce the spread of Covid-19 even in the colder months? The below 6 clips are from this morning's BBC Breakfast where I, my kids (et al) and the most excellent @RaeSnape show some of the things our Primary school will be doing. Part 1
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 months
WOW 🤩🤩🤩🤩 Who is catching the #Auroraborealis in Cambridge RIGHT NOW??? 💖
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Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
I was invited to write this #turningpoints piece about how/why I became a physician-scientist. There was no light bulb moment! 😆 I am here because of the people who have inspired me along the way #grateful
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
WOOHOO 🎉! Cool..... thank you @webofscience !! V honoured.. Shout out to my #AweSomeTeam 😍without which none of this would be possible!! 💪🏼💃🏻🕺🤓 Now let’s make it matter for patients 😉☺️
@EarlyCancerCam
Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge
4 years
Congratulations to @SerenaNikZainal on being included in @webofscience #HighlyCited2020 list of influential researchers who have published multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Full list:
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Bursting with pride! My #BigBrother 👇 given an honorific by the King today. Dead proud, BRUV 🤩! (And about 3 decades previously👉, my dad was conferred the same title !) 😍😭💓
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Wishing peace and contentment to all this #EidAlAdha Feeling hugely #grateful for the opportunity to celebrate one more Eid with my mum 🤲🏼 ☺️
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Diary of a #UKimmigrant Travelling #longhaul to Asia in #CovidTimes Border entry papers required otherwise ⛔️ Heathrow deserted Shops closed (except Boots & WHSmith) On the flight: 1) #DistancedSeats 2) Flight attendants in full #PPE 3) Passengers in #facemasks
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Two young women of mixed ethnicity in the #USOpen final!! Raducanu vs Fernandez Romanian/Chinese and Ecuadorian/Filipino-Canadian Amazing All the brown girls the world over (including this one🙋🏻‍♀️) will be squealing & sharing in your delight. So exciting!!!
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
For our next mutational signatures study, we will endeavour to perform systematic gene-editing of vegetables. For tempura. They’ve got to be CRISPR. #2022resolutions
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
In the midst of current life events, we have found some time 4 a bit of respite. My dad (Tolkien fan) built this place up in the mountains, edge of the rainforest😍 #Bliss #BackToNature #Tranquility #CuzzensPlayTime #PristineRiver #ForestTrees #FruitTrees #JandaBaik #Lorien
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Returning to the UK soon... I feel much safer here in 🇲🇾, superb #TTI process, airport day-0 testing, quarantine, day-13 testing, a working app, daily updates of all new cases (not just sick cases), NOT outsourced....😏
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
WOW! Spectacular piece! Differences in somatic alterations in haematopoietic clones between Japanese & UK populations predispose to different types of🩸cancers. Also large-effect modulating germline variants...
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
5-letter & 6-letter seq 🤩⁦ @CEGX_news ⁩ published today! Find more from one assay with no change to sequencing machines, just a tweak to library prep and informatics (processing provided 😅)! What an exciting time ahead in the omics field!
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Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Gosh! Humbled to be on this list! 😊 With @RFitzgerald_lab @MRC_CU @meyersonlab @gaddyg And many others I don’t have twitter handles for!
@GlobalShakers_
Global Shakers
5 years
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
Inherited this dying twig-thing in a huge pot 18 years ago from the previous owners of our home. Didn’t have the heart to throw it out then. Now it BLOOMS every May in my favourite colour too! 😆🥳 💖
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Well now..... what a privilege. I get to be part of an enormous non-ethics-approved experiment, conducted by the non-expert government that I didn’t vote for.
@carolecadwalla
Carole Cadwalladr
4 years
The news from abroad: ‘Britain is an outlier. No other country is openly pursuing a policy of ‘herd immunity’. It is deeply controversial’
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
Egmond aan zee Catching a bit of DNA damage ☀️ while at a #DNARepair conference 😆 First in-person conference in 2 years!!
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Wow 🤩.... progress!
@women4election
Women for Election
4 years
How it went: How it’s going:
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Well.. 🙁 Clear signal that if she does become NHS chief, it’s time to leave 🇬🇧. “Dido Harding vows to end UK reliance on foreign doctors & nurses.”
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Lovely night out with the wonderful team 💗🤩💖💝 #academicMedicine Celebrating: People coming & going😘🥲🥰 Distinction graduates😇 Papers/Signal website updates😅 Promotions 🤓 BABIES 👶👶👶 And just being together 🎉🎉🥳🙌🏼 #Grateful #Happy #LoveYouAllToBits
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
When I was a little girl, mitochondria were drawn as static peanuts But look! 👇
@MAG2ART
Dylan Burnette
3 years
A cancer cell videoed through a microscope. It has three nuclei (blue). The mitochondria (yellow) and a cytoskeletal component (VASP;red) are also shown. #CellBiology #microscopy #SciArt
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
When I was younger, I used to 🙄 cuz my mom fussed over me when I went home - CONSTANTLY feeding me. #AsianMom Today my eldest comes home from Uni for the weekend, and all I can think of is plan food, prep food, what else I am going to feed him… 😂 #AlsoAsianMom
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Serena Nik-Zainal
10 months
Paper accepted!!! 🥳🥳 💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻 (Shocking scientific story. Needs telling. ) 🙏 to the amazing #Team that pulled this together quickly led by @GeneChChKoh (including the editors that pushed us with their advice! )
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
So #MyLovelyTeam organised a night out but I have covid in my house 🙄, so stayed away… they’ve brought a photo of me 😳😂🤣 But.. but.. #AmNotDeadYet 💖💖
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
😆.. This rings true especially by Tuesday morning... #AcademicMedicine #WomenInSTEM Don't. Say. You. Haven't. Been. Warned.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
PAPER ACCEPTED!!!! YAY!!!!! (Psycho happy for one hour until #exitpoll results...)
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Work smart, travel alone, eat out fast: South Korea's prescription for 2 year post-coronavirus recovery Yes... that’s right folks... That timeline indeed.. This is how we need to think too
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Serena Nik-Zainal
10 months
Deflated #AcademicMedicine No matter how hard you try sometimes, it’s just not enough. Bureaucracy has gotten the better of our efforts to submit an innovative grant. Just circulated an email around our consortium to give them the bad news. Sorry team ☹️…
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Leaving soon 2 go 2 #JosefSteiner ceremony. Wish I had family here! Sokay, I have #SemangatRakyat behind me today💪 ! Completely humbled by the response from 🇲🇾! 😭😊😄😁 #MalaysiaBoleh Thank you 2 the Josef Steiner foundation 4 giving us the opportunity 2 do more work like👇
@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Our paper on clinical value of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) is out! @NatureMedicine #SCANB @Cambridge_Uni @lunduniversity Can our mutational-signature-based algorithm HRDetect predict outcome? Find out👇 1/
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Serena Nik-Zainal
6 years
Our paper on #ValidatingMutationalSignatures using isogenic cell models is out! Fab collaboration with #JoannaLoizou #CeMMAustriaAcademySciences @SPJacksonGroup Great to be able to #recapitulate endogenous #signatures experimentally
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
Thank you for coverage!! 🥲🙏 It is the greatest privilege of our lives to do research on these samples. Thank you 2 all who donate samples, recruit patients, came up with the visionary project, & the consortia that shared their data 4 validation!
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Opportunity!! 5 year UL Clinical Genetics post with me #fiftyfifty clinical/academic 🥳 Come do cancer/general genomics🧑🏻‍💻 Broad spectrum academic/NHS exposure🧑🏻‍🔬 Consultant level🧑🏻‍⚕️ Email/DM me Attitude valued +++ Everything else can be learned ☺️🤓💪🏼
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Gonna go find that pot of gold at the bottom of my garden... 💪🏼🤩💰
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 months
Pls can someone explain 😇 Why have we moved away from having CVs in grant applications in the UK? Why is it being replaced by a ‘narrative CV’? It makes serving on grant panels decidedly difficult… facts replaced by endless waffle…
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
@phylogenomics British Journal of Cursing
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Serena Nik-Zainal
1 year
WOW! 💪🏼 🤗 Total courage shown in what must be an intimidating environment #WomenInSTEM She socked him one 😆 And I AM CHEERING!! 📣🤩
@ceri_weber
Ceri Weber
1 year
Here’s a clip of the woman who confronted the panel. I deeply admire her courage. “It is nothing compared to the systematic and structural discrimination have to face, especially in the stem fields”
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Happy Chinese New Year!!!! 🧧 Missing fam 🥲.... Sharing this amazing 3D thang from my hometown #pavilion #kl Isn’t it spectacular ? 😳🤩 #YearOfTheOx
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
5 years
Wow! They’re DOUBLING the numbers..... wait for it......... from 62 to 120 a year.....🙄🙄🙄 FFS. Priti, hold the exit door open cuz a whole bunch of us will fast-track our way out of the UK at a much higher rate than that.
@pritipatel
Priti Patel MP
5 years
The UK is a world leader in science, that’s why I’m introducing fast track entry to the UK for more scientists so we can attract the brightest global talent.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
1 year
If you have met me in person, you will know what a wee dot I am, often dismissed as small & meek on appearance Today I was told that I can be intimidating👌 Brilliant! I am taking this as positive feedback😆 💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻 #WillCallOutMisogyny #DontAskMeToUnderstand #NoMorePanels
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Wow 🤩
@ProfMakris
Michael Makris
3 years
Amazing case report. The medicine of tomorrow. 5 week old boy admitted to NICU. Within 37 hours he had his whole genome sequenced, gene defect identified, treatment ordered and received by patient. Within 6 hr symptoms resolved.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
7 years
Some dude walks into meeting room, takes one look at me and says: I thought I was meeting with your PI? His name is Nick Zainal. #FacePalm #GiveMeStrength #WomenInSTEM
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
@BallouxFrancois I'm not part of this debate at all. As a mum of two, I don't remember many supporting school closures. I do remember loud voices calling for improved mitigations in school tho. The problem with your tweet is that it creates a polarising situation out of a non-argument.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
I got new glasses! 🤓 (to improve my eyesight but also) to look like I had more… umm.. #gravitas My kids reckon it hasn’t worked 😏😫😂
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
🥲 My dad mentioned early in the article below💖. Pioneering, visionary man. Sowed the seeds of the National Heart Institute in 🇲🇾. Recruited, got funding for, fought for (in this article) cardiothoracic surgery & lots more (cath, CHD screening, etc)✊
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
@acmedsci @Cambridge_Uni @CR_UK @sangerinstitute Thank you Foulkes Foundation for this immense honour. My team and I are thrilled to bits! 🥳 Thanks to all our supporters, mentors, sponsors, funders, collaborators and friends! 🙏 Huge gratitude to all the patients and families that make our research possible!
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
UK Clinical Genomics 2021 tomorrow! Three AMAZING women in my team giving talks💪 @xueqing_zou - signatures of environmental mutagens @SophieMomen - XPC sarcoma responding 2 immunotherapy Helen #BRAF Davies - retinoblastoma genomics I am Dead Proud! ☺️💖 #allworkingmums
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@SerenaNikZainal
Serena Nik-Zainal
6 years
#ReviewersComments Wait, what? 😁 😃 Gonna retire right now!
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
@phylogenomics Molecular Hell
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Serena Nik-Zainal
4 years
Bioinformatics postdoc position in my team! Promise it will be exciting! ☺️
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Muahahaha... 🙋🏻‍♀️
@the_female_lead
The Female Lead
3 years
"It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us." Jane Goodall.
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Serena Nik-Zainal
2 years
I work in two departments and cannot print in either of them #worldleading
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
First Eid with neither parent #MissingLovedOnes Live your best lives folks Celebrate when you can 💖 #SelamatHariRaya #MaafZahirBatin
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
Am particularly delighted as a rock solid mentor is also on the list 👇 as a Croonian lecture medalist!! 🤩 #SadafFarooqi And I am so impressed at the gender balance in the 2021 @royalsociety awards! 👏🏼 2/
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Serena Nik-Zainal
3 years
In my next life, I want to be a #MasterchefFoodCritique What a great job… I mean…. I would really miss academic admin, passive-aggressive egoists, box-ticking bureaucrats, online training…
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