about.

Siobhan is a photographer based in South Wales, UK, who specialises in Live Music, Landscape and Lifestyle photography.

She is also studying at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff Univeristy, where she is researching predictors of treatment outcomes in schizophrenia.

photo.

science.

Skills

Computing: R (mostly), bash/CLI (partly), python (barely)


Statistics: regression modelling, mediation analysis, data visualisation

Experience

Teaching: Pharmacogenomics of Schizophrenia Intro and Practical


Community: Life Sciences Challenge (Helping to design and deliver an inter-schools science quiz competition.)

Writing

Clozapine and ANC
Paper and Markdown


education.

  • PhD Project. 2022 - present
    New approaches in precision psychiatry: Exploring genomic markers and linked health records to predict symptom improvement and drug response in schizophrenia.
  • MSc Bioinformatics. 2021 - 2022
    Distinction.

    Dissertation project: Pharmacogenomic makeup and medication use in Schizophrenia. An Investigation of CYP Enzyme Metabolism Variables and Medication Phenotypes in the CardiffCOGS sample.

    Individual data project: Investigating the role of Abi3 in Microglia from recently published data by exploring differential gene expression and perfoming a pathway analysis.

    Group data project: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Nutritional Impacts on Huntington’s Disease involving the development of a data dashboard in R Shiny and an examination of preliminary findings.
  • BSc Psychology. 2017 - 2021
    1st class.

    Dissertation project: Investigating the Impact of Cyfip1 Haploinsufficiency on Brain Structure and Plasticity After Training on a Biconditional Task

    Placement year: Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging to reconstruct subcortical white matter pathways.

    Summer internship: Does Moral Elevation buffer the Moral Licensing Effect?

contact.

  +44 7972 073610
  siobhan-lock@hotmail.co.uk
  locksk@cardiff.ac.uk
  South Wales, UK