A great SBS seminar yesterday from Norman Ratcliffe, who works for @bas.ac.uk Zavodovski Island was described as "Mordor, but all the orcs are penguins"! Drone imagery, tracking info, and metabarcoding of faecal samples to look at diet were used to track population decline in chinstrap penguins.

Learn more about adaptive sampling in our latest Nanopore Know-How: https://nanoporetech.com/blog/guided-by-data-adaptive-sampling-for-targeted-sequencing?utm_campaign=OmicsTech+25&utm_content=1764775021&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Our pangenome graph-based Nanopore Adaptive Sampling (NAS) tool, GNASTy, is available now in Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

it was a real pleasure to have @katepeters3.bsky.social from @sussexneuro.bsky.social giving a very engaging talk on the effect of environmental enrichment on food seeking at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social. Thanks to the @royalsoced.bsky.social to fund our project allowing her to be here.

Can peer review make our writing more readable? Colleagues at the @rowettinstitute.bsky.social have a paper in Frontiers for Young Minds, where papers are reviewed for understanding by 8-15 year old students. Read about their experience (UoA only link) abdn.site/qDqoA Paper: doi.org/10.3389/frym...

CGEBM are running another drop-in bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (13th January) in the IMS building atrium on the Foresterhill campus from 11:00 to 12:00. Pop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on.

Today's IMS PI seminar from Prof Alasdair MacKenzie focused on the role of cis-regulatory enhancers in anxiety, how these are affected by and interact with sex and early life stress, and the effects of disruption of enhancers (either by methylation or experiments) doi.org/10.1111/febs... #Aberdeen

We are running our first bioinformatics clinic next Tuesday (9th December) in the IMS atrium on the Foresterhill campus. Drop by and ask us any bioinformatics questions - R, genome assembly or whatever you are currently working on. We will be available from 12:30 to 13:30, after the Carol Concert.

Recommendations for bioinformatics in clinical practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interested in how portable sequencing could improve patient care in remote & under-resourced hospitals? Here's a case report from Tanzania in which a mobile setup (Bento Lab + ONT MinION) helped to diagnose a child’s infection when routine tests failed! Read more here: www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

C. elegans researchers were early adopters of open science: "The development of common resources and the belief that research findings and mutant strains should be freely shared has propelled worm research to the forefront" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I didn't manage to summarise all of @rorylcooper.bsky.social 's seminar today, but here we have sonic hedgehog inhibition pausing chicken embryo feather development at stage E9, and halting chicken embryo feather development at stage E11. Thank you for the great talk on skin patterning.

It was great to hear about Dr Peng (Alex) Liu's research today, finding out how black carbon pollution affects developing fetuses. Many methods were featured, including proteomics to identify potential reactionary metabolites, single cell transcriptome sequencing (done by our CGEBM team) and more.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the SBS seminar from @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social , looking at over 20 years of butterfly data. In Spanish mountain ranges, cold specialised species are going locally extinct and are being replaced by warmer habitat species #UniofAberdeen #Biology #SciArt

Our bioinformatics workshops are fast approaching. More details and booking information on our training page: tinyurl.com/c5n9n6p4

Thank you for the great seminar yesterday @yorkyeast.bsky.social We heard about the systems and regulatory mechanisms involved in endosome recycling in yeast. A wide range of techniques were used for this work: membrane visualisations, genetic screenings, qPCR & more