Saddened to hear of Phil Bourne's death. I first encountered him as chair of ISMB 2000 in San Diego at my first ever computational biology conference. He always pushed for open science and always tried to make things better. In both he made a positive difference
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Crushed to hear of Mark Batzer’s passing. He was the Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. His influential research revealed how mobile elements shape the genomes of humans & other mammals. Mark’s personality, generosity & positivity were larger than life. He lifted everyone up. HUGE loss 💔
chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
Never a doubt 😁
Congratulations Zam! This is fantastic news!
My lab at hiring! - we have TWO postdoc positions (one computational, one wet lab focussed) at Yale @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social, working closely with our group members at University of Cambridge, UK @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
Please help to spread the word!
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Celebrating all of the amazing women in science I've had as mentors, role models, colleagues and friends 🧬👩💻🧪
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but I found this book to be very enlightening en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dic...
Congratulations Jill! That is fantastic news
A phenomenal effort to bring this together with so many interesting aspects of how genetic background influences cancer development. I'm honoured to have been part of this project!
🌟NEW PREPRINT ALERT!🌟
We are very pleased to introduce #StrainDifferences: “Genetic background sets the trajectory of cancer evolution”
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Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
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Meeting topics and invited list of speakers
Abstract submissions are still open for the CSHL Network Biology meeting in March 11 - 15 2025 (abstract deadline: Jan 10). A large fraction of talks will be selected from the abstracts. On behalf of the organizers, we look forward to welcoming you there.
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Thanks. I'll check it out
Doesn’t seem to be. Many of the JGI authors on this paper have been working on understanding UCEs (with considerable success) at least since the 2007 Ahituv paper that knocked out some UCEs and got viable, apparently normal mice. Knocking out this element results in clear limb abnormalities
I’ve just read this pre-print and it’s fantastic. A conserved element with no endogenous enhancer activity is nonetheless necessary and sufficient for extreme long range enhancer action. Recommend to anyone interested in gene regulation
This looks like a great meeting! In a great place too
The events of this week suggest that the excitement and hype around AI in science won’t be dying down anytime soon
8/tl;dr: In most situations, it is to the author's maximal benefit to license their manuscripts thusly:
preprints: any CC license
journal publication: CC BY only
🧪 #AcademicSky
Far from the Tree / Andrew Solomon
The Sports Gene / David Epstein
The Vaccine Race / Meredith Wadman
And others listed already
The cover of a scientific comic titled "What's Wrong with this DNA?"
The comic is part of the scientific outreach activities from the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge and the home
@s-j-aitken.bsky.social's research group
The story is based on the discovery of lesion segregation a few years ago (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), in a project that I played a part in, which is a great read too
Celebrate #DNADay by reading the comic (and scientifically accurate 🧪) adventures from Cell Town, home of Pol, Hely, Topy, and the Repair Squad as they set out on another round of cell division! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
The use of the phrase “ancestry-specific variant” is increasing, particularly to describe rare Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). But these alleles are not ancestry-specific. They have not yet been found elsewhere, but they will be. 1/n
At the forefront of research involving long-read sequence data, JAX's @christinebeck.bsky.social & Peter Audano discuss how adjustments to the technical and analytical infrastructure are needed. Read more in their recent Genome Research paper 🧪🤝🖥️ 🧬 :
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