Anna Ahern

Anna Ahern

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Head of Data Analytics & Engineering
County Cork, Ireland

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  • Dotmatics
    Head of Data Analytics & Engineering
    Dotmatics
    Mar 2026 - Current (6 months)
  • Dotmatics
    Senior Engineering Manager, Data
    Dotmatics
    Jul 2024 - Mar 2026 (1 year 9 months)
  • Dotmatics
    Lead Data Engineer
    Dotmatics
    Jul 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years)
  • EY
    Data Analytics Manager
    EY
    Apr 2022 - Jul 2022 (4 months)
  • EY
    Data Analytics Assistant Manager
    EY
    Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year)
  • Keelvar
    Senior Analyst
    Keelvar
    Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 (9 months)
    As a member of the professional services team at Keelvar my work focused on providing bespoke reporting for customers on large scale logistics and procurement events as well as in depth analysis and optimization of their spend. I also worked with our customers to ensure their success using the Keelvar platforms by providing regular training and support.
  • Keelvar
    Data Analyst
    Keelvar
    Nov 2019 - Jul 2020 (9 months)
  • APC Microbiome Institute
    PHD Student
    APC Microbiome Institute
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2020 (4 years 1 month)
    My project focused on testing deep learning methods for integrating large scale biological data and is specialized in analyzing multiple data types together and predicting long term health outcomes.
  • University College Cork
    Tutor/Demonstrator
    University College Cork
    Sep 2016 - Sep 2019 (3 years 1 month)
    Demonstrated and tutored for several modules, including Computational Biology, Computational Systems Biology, and Genomic Data analysis. Completing analysis of course content with a mind to improving student accessibility. Maintained open channels of communication with both staff and students.
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    Personal Care assisstant
    The Cork Centre for Independant living
    Sep 2011 - Oct 2016 (5 years 2 months)
    Provided one to one support for community members with physical disabilities and long term illness. Certified first responder for community members. Qualified in Infection Control, Manual Handling, and Safe Talk. Maintained open channels of communication with community members.
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  • University College Cork
    PhD, Biomathematics
    University College Cork
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 (4 years 1 month)
    My work focused on testing deep learning methods for integrating large scale biological data, and is specialized in analyzing multiple data types together.
  • University College Cork
    Msc Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
    University College Cork
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)
    Research Project title: “Deep Learning approaches for stratifying microbiota, genotype and diet of inflammatory bowel disease patients”
  • University College Cork
    Bsc Genetics, Genetics
    University College Cork
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)
    Final year project: “Assessing evidence of alternative proteoforms using GWIPS-viz” Published in Proteomics, PMID: 25736862
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      Colonic Microbiota Is Associated With Inflammation and Host Epigenomic Alterations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
      Nature Communications Mar
      The chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), Crohn’s disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC), are heterogeneous disorders with distinct and overlapping features that represent the outcome of abnormal host-microbe interactions, in genetically susceptible individuals. While the pathogenesis of IBD in experimental models highlight the role of host-microbe interactions, human studies are less clear and inconsistent, without a definitive cause-effect relationship. Small study populations and protocol variations have confounded interpretation and comparative analyses of human studies. Studies of the mucosa-associated microbiota are likely to be more informative than those of fecal microbiota in relation to host-microbe interactions. Moreover,
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      GWIPS-viz as a tool for exploring ribosome profiling evidence supporting the synthesis of alternative proteoforms.
      Proteomics Mar
      The boundaries of protein coding sequences are more difficult to define at the 5′ end than at the 3′ end due to potential multiple translation initiation sites (TISs). Even in the presence of phylogenetic data, the use of sequence information only may not be sufficient for the accurate identification of TISs. Traditional proteomics approaches may also fail because the N‐termini of newly synthesized proteins are often processed. Thus ribosome profiling (ribo‐seq), producing a snapshot of the ribosome distribution across the entire transcriptome, is an attractive experimental technique for the purpose of TIS location exploration. The GWIPS‐viz (Genome Wide Information on Protein Synthesis visualized) browser (http://gwips.ucc.ie) provides fre
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      Gut microbiome, big data and machine learning to promote precision medicine for cancer
      Nature Reviews Gastroenterology Hepatology Jul
      The gut microbiome has been implicated in cancer in several ways, as specific microbial signatures are known to promote cancer development and influence safety, tolerability and efficacy of therapies. The ‘omics’ technologies used for microbiome analysis continuously evolve and, although much of the research is still at an early stage, large-scale datasets of ever increasing size and complexity are being produced. However, there are varying levels of difficulty in realizing the full potential of these new tools, which limit our ability to critically analyse much of the available data. In this Perspective, we provide a brief overview on the role of gut microbiome in cancer and focus on the need, role and limitations of a machine learning-dri
    This is a community-created genome.