Join this year's CSH Asia Systems Biology of Gene Regulation & Genome Editing meeting in beautiful Suzhou, China, Oct 20-24. Let's bring the international communities together! Abstract deadline Sept 19! Infos and registration at csh-asia.org?content/2767. Please repost!

A BLAST update adding support for compressed files and csv output with headers is a Good Friday night surprise! blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/doc/blast-ne...

Last day of #ARNASydney2025 and this cartoon from @xkcd.com is just particularly appropriate, so I had to re-share! #RNAsky

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

Things are happening 🌱 #RegRNALab @unswbabs.bsky.social

We are now listening to our Keynote speaker, Matt Disney, from The Scripps Research Institute 🇺🇸, who due to unforseen circumstances could not join us in-person. Matt's presentation was generously sponsored by the UNSW RNA Institute (@unswrna.bsky.social) #ARNASydney2025 #RNASky 🧵👇🏼

Starting the last day of #ARNASydney2025 with the RNA Processing and Modifications session. First, @edueyras.bsky.social, who is developing pipelines to identify #RNA modifications in using @nanoporetech.com 👀 this preprint on the conservation of RNA modifications: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Yesterday, after our 2nd poster session and a stunning sunset seen from the Aerial UTS, we closed the day at our Evening Social at the Old Clare Hotel 🥂 Glad Sydney weather has been cooperating 🌤️ #ARNASydney2025

We are now in the non-coding #RNA session at #ARNASydney2025. We heard a fascinating story on other functions of the TERRA #lncRNA, which binds ATRX and gene promoters. It also is more abundant in the aging brain. A great talk by Hsueh-Ping Chu from the National Taiwan University. #RNASky

Super fun presenting some of our #MDA5 #RNA sensor work to an RNA-centric audience! The different point of view from my usual infection and immunity background led to some great questions and discussions. More ideas forming!!! #ARNASydney2025 #virus 🧪🧫🦠

We had a set of amazing talks in the #RNA in immunity session at #ARNASydney2025. Presentations by Stacey Horner, @drnatsampaio.bsky.social, Elizabeth Chan and Kitty McCaffrey. From viral infections to bacterial toxins, a really great session. #RNASky

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

Day 2 of #ARNASydney2025 started with the #RNA in disease session, sponsored by RNA Australia, with talks by Sandra Cooper, Glen Reid, Lachlan Jolly & Agin Ravindran. Now focusing on Nucleic Acids Structure, Chemistry & Dynamics with @nilswalterlab.bsky.social, Jacob Munro & Vincent Corbin. #RNASky

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

The Asia RNA Club Symposium will be happening in Seoul in Nov 3-5, bringing together RNA scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. Excellent speakers and a great opportunity to connect! Abstract submission by Sept 5 asiarnaclub.org

Happy for my dear friends and colleagues @paleogenomics.bsky.social & @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social and their team, who just published a study @science.org describing the genetic diversity of mammoths 🦣 found while building an airport in 🇲🇽. DNA usually does not preserve well in warmer climates More 👇🏽

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

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📢📢📢 The #AsiaRNA2025 abstract deadline has been extended to September 5th!!! Join us at the inaugural Asia RNA Club Symposium 2025 🗓️ Nov 3-5, 2025 📍Seoul National University, Seoul, 🇰🇷 Register by Oct 10th More info: asiarnaclub.org #RNASky @rnasociety.bsky.social 🔄🙏🏽

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Interested in #RNA research in the Asia-Pacific region? Join us at the first Asia RNA Club Symposium 2025! 🗓️ Nov 3-5, 2025 📍Seoul National University, Seoul, 🇰🇷 Submit your abstract by Aug 22nd Register by Oct 10th More info: asiarnaclub.org #AsiaRNA2025 #RNASky @rnasociety.bsky.social 🔄🙏🏽

Today's edition of why commuting by 🚲 is the best: 🌈

Listening to Stephanie Nobbs (@snobsi.bsky.social) telling us about the fascinating Asgard archaea isolated from Shark Bay's microbial mats. They isolated a new archaea and assembled its genome and in silico proteome. Found lots of eukaryote-like tubulins + new protein folds @unswbabs.bsky.social

Second talk today by @labliston.bsky.social, now telling us about how to harness tissue #TRegs in the 🧠 Being a total trooper as he only landed yesterday - jetlag when coming from the antipodes tends to hit hard @unswbabs.bsky.social

Listening to @labliston.bsky.social on creating a positive research culture. He defines it as one where team members are empowered, recognised, have a clear career 🛣️ & can contribute to impactful & reproducible research @unswbabs.bsky.social

Happy #RNA Day everyone!!! 🎉🎉🎉 #AUG1st #RNASky

#SciJobs #Bioinformatics #SciSky

Braiding sweetgrass, one of the best books I've ever read - highly recommended 🌾🌿🍁

Heading home - thanks for everything Beijing 🇨🇳 and #SMBE2025! See you next year in Copenhagen

This so much! 🚲

Wow. What a way to close out the scientific content of #SMBE2025! Qiaomei Fu takes us through ancient DNA's contribution to our understanding of #HumanEvolution over the past couple of decades, culminating in her revelation this month that we now know what #Denisovans looked like.

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Bonus #SMBE2025 perks: Finally got to meet @roliroberts.bsky.social! We correspond often as part of the work we do for @plosbiology.org, but nothing beats meeting in person. Also caught up with lots of 🇲🇽 folks. Such a great meeting!

Listening to the final keynote of #SMBE2025 by Qiaomei Fu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She's telling us about her ground breaking research on human genetic history in East Asia. Identified a new key Central Yunnan ancestry - thus at least 4 Asian lineages. Full study link 👇🏽

Now's the turn of Eduardo Jiménez from Universidad Católica 🇨🇱 telling us about the genomes of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic 🐧 Found some differences in MEF2C, which is involved on melanocyte differentiation from the neural crest and overall positive selection on pigmentation in Royal 🐧 #SMBE2025

Proud of #RegRNALab 's student Xingyu Yan, who presented preliminary results on her PhD project. Well done Xingyu! 🌱 Also, she's been an incredible host, helping me an others sort out paying issues and providing Beijing recommendations 谢谢 #SMBE2025 @unswbabs.bsky.social

Neat talk by Padraic Heneghan (@therealpdogue.bsky.social) 🇮🇪 on fungal toxin gene clusters. Found heaps of new ones and a potential link with fungal pathogenicity on crops. Great example of a bioinformatics discovery exercise leading to findings that inform key 'real-world' problems. #SMBE2025

Great talk by @ravinderkanda.bsky.social, presenting a method to identify new exogenous & endogenous retroviruses, as well as their characterisation in anaurans 🐸 Highlights our view on these retroviruses is very mammalian-centric and there are still lots of unknown unknowns to be filled #SMBE2025

Cool talk by Yeonwoo Park from Narry Kim's lab 🇰🇷, on the co-evolution of pri-miRNA structures and their processing proteins. Key findings, a highly conserved interaction and RNA structure still undergoes constant beneficial and detrimental mutations despite an apparent 'immutability'. #SMBE2025

Yalong Guo shares interesting observations of a de novo gene in Arabidopsis 🌱 SWP regulates osmotic stress, is highly prevalent in natural populations but it's not under positive selection - highlights it's key to distinguish origin vs selection, as both are may increase prevalence #SMBE2025

For those at #SMBE2025, here's the cool @plosbiology.org Drosophila "museomics" paper name-checked by @philipphummer.bsky.social at the start of his talk on TE spread in global D. melanogaster populations: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Super cool talk by Parker Crossland showing that DNA in single fixed cells can be amplified & sequenced (B. subtilis, E. coli & yeast). Only 14 cells needed to cover the full yeast genome 🤯 Adding barcodes captures rare genotypes missed by colony picking 🦠 Preprint 👇🏽 #SMBE2025

Listening to former #RegRNALab member (now in the Moreno Lab) Jose Antonio Corona, presenting the #LatinCells project,seeking to characterise the genetic diversity of immune cells. Lots of extreme field work done for sampling indigenous populations across Latin America! 🌎 #SMBE2025

Listening to Yesenia Madrigal from @nataliapabonm.bsky.social's lab, telling us about how floral transition and development is genetically controlled in orchids. Floral symmetry genes are quite different to those previously characterised in eudicots 🌿 #SMBE2025

Victoria Shabardina from the @multicellgenome.bsky.social lab, catching us up on the latest findings on the emergence of animal multicellularity. Ets still amongst the last few 'metazoan exclusive' genes remaining. Gorgeous imagining 🔬👌🏽 #SMBE2025

Having an amazing time in 🇨🇳 at #SMBE2025! Stunning venue, great food, company and science 🫶🏽 Day highlight: my first PhD student in Mexico (Jose Antonio Corona Gómez) and my first PhD student in Australia (Xingyu Yan) got to meet! #RegRNALab Also, Beijing is 🔥

#SciJobs #SciSky

#SciJobs #SciSky

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Finally, someone went after this question! How do sea slugs become photosynthetic after stealing chloroplasts from algae they consume? Also, 𝗸𝗹𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 is such a neat name for an organelle that stores 'stolen' chloroplasts. Looking forward to reading this in detail 🤿🌿🐌