Kathryn "Kat" Elizabeth Holt is an Australian computational biologist specializing in infectious disease genomics.
10 Facts About Kat Holt
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In 2015, Holt received the L'Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talent Award.
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The daughter of two biomedical scientists, Kat Holt grew up in an environment where science was a frequent topic of discussion.
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In 2004, Kat Holt graduated from the University of Western Australia with Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Biochemistry, Applied Statistics, and Philosophy, as well as Honours in Genetics with a focus on plant gene expression.
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One year after completing her undergraduate education, in 2005, Kat Holt worked as a research technician in the Bioinformatics Division of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
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Kat Holt continued her education at the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her Master of Epidemiology degree in 2011.
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Kat Holt conducted postdoctoral research as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Microbiology and Immunology from 2010 to 2012.
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Kat Holt then became a senior research fellow at the same university in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute from 2012 to 2018.
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In 2015, Kat Holt was named a L'Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talent.
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Additionally, Kat Holt has been a professor of research at Monash University in the Department of Infectious Diseases since January 2019.