{"id":2138,"date":"2022-12-31T04:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/?page_id=2138"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:45:31","slug":"my-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/my-story\/","title":{"rendered":"My story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2129 size-thumbnail alignright\" title=\"Erika_Cule_Fun_Headshot_Not_Cropped\" src=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/files\/2022\/12\/ED7AD210-5D4A-45EE-B099-9F53183EADBD-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/files\/2022\/12\/ED7AD210-5D4A-45EE-B099-9F53183EADBD-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/files\/2022\/12\/ED7AD210-5D4A-45EE-B099-9F53183EADBD-144x144.jpeg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Some details<\/h3>\n<p>My church is <a href=\"https:\/\/htsk.co.uk\/\">Holy Trinity South Kensington<\/a> on Prince Consort Road. I arrived here via a circuitous route and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/\">Imperial<\/a> College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/chaplaincy\/\">connection<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>My job-church, where I work, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stmaryshornseyrise.org.uk\/\">St Mary\u2019s Hornsey Rise<\/a>. I work on a project involving outreach in the local community. <\/p>\n<p>I am studying for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.anglican.org\/clergy-llm-support\/licensed-lay-ministry\/st-edmunds-courses\/the-two-year-course\/\">Bishop\u2019s Certificate in Christian Studies<\/a> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.anglican.org\/clergy-llm-support\/licensed-lay-ministry\/st-edmunds-courses\/\">St Edmund\u2019s Courses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.anglican.org\/\">Diocese of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Before All This<\/h3>\n<p>Before <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2023\/01\/01\/darwin-and-the-divine\/\">All This<\/a> happened, I was a statistician and scientist. I worked latterly at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.co.uk\/\">AstraZeneca<\/a>, and before that spent some years at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsk.com\/en-gb\/\">GlaxoSmithKline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From 2009 to 2013 I was a PhD student in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.imperial.ac.uk\/medicine\/about\/divisions\/publichealth\/eph\/\">Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/\">Imperial College London<\/a>. My thesis was on the development of statistical methods to use genetic data in the estimation of disease risk. My supervisor was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/statistics\/people\/mariadeiorio\">Professor Maria De Iorio<\/a>. I spent the final thirteen months of my PhD studentship as a visiting student to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/statistics\/\">Department of Statistical Science<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/\">UCL<\/a>. In 2013 I <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2013\/03\/18\/denouement\/\">passed<\/a> my PhD and starting working.<\/p>\n<p>From 2008 to 2009 I was an MSc student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/life-sciences\/\">Department of Life Sciences<\/a> at Imperial. I completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/life-sciences\/postgraduate\/masters-courses\/msc-in-bioinformatics-and-theoretical-systems-biology\/\">MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My postgraduate training was funded by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/index.htm\">Wellcome Trust<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Biomedical-science\/Funding-schemes\/PhD-funding-and-undergraduate-opportunities\/WTD004384.htm\">Four-year PhD Studentship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My undergraduate training is in biochemistry. I completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/life-sciences\/undergraduate\/biochemistry-and-biotechnology\/\">BSc Biochemistry<\/a>, also at Imperial. My copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lubert_Stryer\">Stryer<\/a> is the green one (fifth edition).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some details My church is Holy Trinity South Kensington on Prince Consort Road. I arrived here via a circuitous route and the Imperial College connection. My job-church, where I work, is St Mary\u2019s Hornsey Rise. I work on a project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/my-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2138\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}