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Email

oliverkl@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Research Fellow - Epilepsy Research Centre
Department of Medicine
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Masters (Coursework & Research)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-5188-6153

Dr Karen L Oliver

Senior Research Fellow - Epilepsy Research Centre
Department of Medicine

74 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Epilepsy concordance in monozygotic twins: the role of common genetic variants
    DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaf362
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Genetic testing for familial epilepsies: Diagnostic yield and genetic findings
    DOI: 10.1002/epi.70160
  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Integrating Monogenic and Polygenic Epilepsy Risk Factors to Advance Molecular Diagnoses and to Understand Disease Risk
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Impact of Epilepsy on Productivity and Quality of Life: The Australian Epilepsy Project
    DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214011
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Unravelling the Genetic Mechanisms of Multiday Seizure Cycles to Drive Novel Treatments for Intractable Epilepsy
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy type 1 SAMD12 TTTCA repeat expansion arose 17,000 years ago and is present in Sri Lankan and Indian families
    DOI: 10.1038/s41431-020-0606-z
  • 2020

    Research Contracts

    ILAE GWAS 2.0 MR Analysis
Karen L Oliver

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2025
<p>Dean's Award for Excellence in PhD Thesis</p> University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine Denistry and Health Sciences
2025
<p>Finalist, Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research</p> Victorian Government
2024
<p>Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research</p> University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine Denistry and Health Sciences
2023
<p>Best Platform Award</p> Epilepsy Society of Australia and New Zealand League Against Epilepsy

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Ten-year projection of adult epilepsy burden in Australia
    DOI: 10.1111/epi.18430
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Psychoses of Epilepsy: Unravelling the Phenotypic and Genotypic Features
    DOI: 10.1002/ana.27209
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Phenotypic heterogeneity in familial epilepsies is influenced by polygenic risk for generalized and focal epilepsies
    DOI: 10.1111/epi.18348
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Identifying individuals with rare disease variants by inferring shared ancestral haplotypes from SNP array data
    DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqaf033
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Novel, complex configurations of the MARCHF6 repeat expansion associated with progressive myoclonic epilepsy and familial adult myoclonic epilepsy
    DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf433
  • 2025

    Journal article

    WWOX -Related Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum and Deciphering the Genotype-Phenotype
    DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000213883
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Solving the Etiology of Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy with Spike–Wave Activation in Sleep (D/EE-SWAS)
    DOI: 10.1002/ana.27041

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