📢 Sydney #RNA scientists: our next #SydneyRNASalon event is coming up! 🧬 ECR, student, or just RNA-curious? This one's for you! 📅 Thu 30 April · 2:10–4:30pm 📍 Room G07, Biosciences Building D26 UNSW 🥐 Refreshments sponsored by @rnasociety.bsky.social, Lexogen & @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

@ashjogalekar.bsky.social Summarised beautifully on X the most profound lesson re Rosie and her personalised canine cancer vaccine, namely that Paul Conyngham's work here using AI to design the mRNA we made, demonstrates that Dyson's prophecy about "domesticating" Biotech is within reach! #ozchem

A good news story for you this morning in The Australian, featuring #genomics, #AI, and #mRNA #vaccines 🧬🐕 www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...

The deadline has been extended to March 15th for the RNA Society's Infographics contest! Get your talent team together and submit! Prizes!! Go to www.rnasociety.org/rna-society-... or scan the QR for details!

Could @lornegenome.bsky.social be the MOST Aussie genomics conference?

Zheng Su presents kiloBrains.com, an AI-powered biodata analysis platform. A virtual bioinformatics assistant #AGTA2025

Cornetto from @hasindu2008.bsky.social presented by Ira Deveson: T2T assembly of human genomes with @nanoporetech.com adaptive sampling by rejecting the "boring bits". 27/46 chromosomes fully assembled from one flowcell. Can also be used on saliva! #AGTA2025 github.com/hasindu2008/...

"Isoforms are important; how come we're not studying them?" #AGTA2025 keynote @azizalkhafaji.bsky.social mentions that we are now at am I flection point, where 100s of millions of reads are produced per run.

The great Prof Vanessa Hayes, who sequenced the first African Genome, states "the closer we get to ancestral populations, the more diversity we see in genomes". Presents genomic data from WGS of Khoe-San populations, interesting phylogenetic split between Khoe (hunters) and San (gatherers) #agta2025

#Roche #Axelios #SBX #AccidentalRenaissance #AGTA2025

Prof Sean Grimmong from PeterMac Genomic Cancer Medicine on the entire workflow for #cancer #diagnosis, and how to deal with dilemmas, like the 5% of Australians without a clear diagnosis #agta2025

The 🧬🧬🧬 party has started!! First sponsored session by #Roche on #Axelios #SBX #AGTA2025

@estamatakis.bsky.social , not recently active on #Bluesky, on the health value of each minute of different physical activity intensities against 6 health outcomes.

Adaptive sampling #WGS is moving from bench to bedside. Our work delivers SNV, structural & methylation insights on @nanoporetech.com with molecular signals emerging in minutes, not days. Watch this space 👀 #cancer #genomicAI #MultiOmics #bioinformatics @cra-chusj.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4d337djb

Given how stingy public research funding is overall, it's shocking that the #MRFF only spends 50% of what is allocated in the budget. This funds highly impactful, translational research focused fund that can DIRECTLY address the economic burdens of the healthcare system + improved patient outcomes

28km, 7 bridges, 2 family members raising funds for #CancerCouncil In honour of their grandparents. If you can spare a gold coin, please help support my wife and son for a second year in a row 🎗️ www.7bridgeswalk.com.au/fundraisers/... #fuckCancer #cancer #research

Genomics is the future of cancer treatment. The PAGES project is making sure Aboriginal Australians are part of that future. 🎬 Watch now 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfX... #precisionMedicine #healthEquity #genomics #firstNations

Existential #RNAsky question for the weekend: If two RNA products share the same promoter/TSS, but have different 5' ends (one is processed out of longer transcript) and are differentially expressed, are they different isoforms or distinct genes?

LLM chat bot generated requests for HDR supervision are so generic and obvious, it makes sifting through applications that much easier. I'm concerned for new tenure track academics -- I hope they can sniff out these copy paste requests, maybe by using honeypots on university research profiles?

Don't miss @osvaldoics.bsky.social in the flesh next Tuesday in Sydney

Some exciting #SingleCell events with #ParseBio coming up this month at @ramacgenomics.bsky.social 🧬 9 Sept: SPLiT-Seq Tech Showcase Seminar 🔗 tinyurl.com/bddc5zc3 15 Sept: Application deadline for discounted Parse Evercode WT Mini v3 Kit promotion 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc84zmfm 📩 [email protected]

Congratulations to @hasindu2008.bsky.social form #UNSW Computer Science and Engineering for wearing a tuxedo last night 👏🏻 Also for being awarded the #EurekaPrize for outstanding early career researcher, showcase his pioneering and impacftful research in #bioinformatics software

Prof Cecile King finishing her #ARNASydney2025 talk on biomolecular condensates by promoting the upcoming (free) symposium on the topic in November

@thermofishersci.bsky.social @decodescience.bsky.social @garvaninstitute.bsky.social @ramacgenomics.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com @agrf.bsky.social @revvity.bsky.social Apologies if I missed some sponsor or exhibitor accounts (please let me know if so) #AGTA2025

Early bird deadline extended for #AGTA #AGTA2025 This year will be quite different, with a big focus on tech, low cost Rego, digital engagement, and in a central location. Don't miss the ECR events, exhibitor lounges (à la AGBT) and two lightning talk sessions, open to industry members: agta2025.com

Yesterday we had a brilliant start to #ARNASydney2025. We kicked off with the #RNA in neuroscience & RNA tech, AI & Bioinformatics sessions. Speakers included @sergiuppasca.bsky.social, Mike Clark, @sabaaltaf.bsky.social, Nicole Green and several others #RNASky @unswrna.bsky.social

Prof Nils Walter from U.Michigan back in Sydney, mentions it's his favourite place! Opening up the #ARNASydney2025 structure, chemistry and dynamics session.

#A-RNA2025 off to a great start. @martinalexsmith.bsky.social sharing his views on why lncRNAs should no longer be consider wallflowers.

The annual meeting of the Australasian RNA association is on for the next 3 days at UTS. Possibly one of the longest hashtags ever #ARNASydney2025

Only 3 sleeps until #ARNASydney2025!!! Excited to host two special panels: 💼 Career Development Panel - organised by our outstanding A-RNA EMCR team 💊 RNA Commercialisation Workshop - generously sponsored by BioNTech Australia Register at www.a-rnameeting.org.au #RNASky @unswrna.bsky.social

Glad I saw @ivanliachko.bsky.social present on mind-blowing applications of proximity ligation, including metagenomics--linking plasmids, phages and genomes across microbiomes. I see major impact for precision #phagetherapy (and #onehealth) Godspeed @phasegenomics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yaubcrpt

Glad I saw @ivanliachko.bsky.social present on mind-blowing applications of proximity ligation, including metagenomics--linking plasmids, phages and genomes across microbiomes. I see major impact for precision #phagetherapy (and #onehealth) Godspeed @phasegenomics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yaubcrpt

Scholarships available for Genome Informatics - just include a brief summary on your open science work plus your conference abstract. If you have already paid to register, we will work with CSHL to refund you the $$$. Apply today! jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-6-... @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social

The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases go.nature.com/3BBVqDC rdcu.be/eCbj4

RNA is far more than a messenger. Its structures regulate, evolve, and catalyze — carrying out functions DNA alone cannot. But predicting #RNA structure from sequence is still extremely difficult. In our recently published paper in @narjournal.bsky.social we present a way forward. 🧵 ⤵️

🥱 Bored during #ScienceWeek2025? 🥼 Want to go on an adventure from the comfort of your pyjamas? 🧪🧬Why not go on an immersive & interactive virtual tour of a #Genomics #Lab? Wander around the @ramacgenomics.bsky.social Centre with impunity here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr2cj4rj #UNSWscience

The P6 buzzing alone peacefully, discretely filling up hard drives 🧬

Nice @unswbabs.bsky.social UNSW write up of our paper. ✈️ Melbourne now w/ team to present this and other work at #HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social 24th awardee meeting. Looking forward to getting inspired with new biology from interdisciplinary teams across the world. www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/06...

🌅🐦‍⬛Early bird Registration for #AGTA2025 is live! Submit your abstract 📝 and check-out the awesome 🗓️ program here ➡️ agta2025.org

ABC Radio National Health report on Rosie, featuring @kmichie.bsky.social 📻👂https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/ai-lung-cancer-syphilis/105376662

The IncaRNAto lab is seeking a motivated #PhD candidate, interested in studying #RNA structural ensemble dynamics in living cells. Here's the link to the vacancy: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor.... Please share!

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Steven, our fabulous Research Assistant who works in the amplicon, Sanger, and ONT sequencing teams! @unswbabs.bsky.social #unsw #ramaciotticentreforgenomics

Is this the catalyst that streamlines clinical AI variant interpretation? Let's go!

AlphaGenome: advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with a unified DNA sequence model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661532v1

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Speed, quality, and purpose. The @ramacgenomics.bsky.social is proud to support users like Paul, who are turning #AI and #genomic science into real-world impact–even for man's best friend. news.unsw.edu.au/en/paul-is-u...

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Join us TODAY for the latest Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Monthly Seminar, where cutting-edge science meets cost-effective innovation. Featuring Ivonne Petermann showcasing Illumina's PIPseq and Tsz (Andrew) Ho Li from UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences. See you soon! #SingleCell #Illumina

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986