Colleagues/students who recently traveled to #Iran are likely unreachable by email, messaging apps, or phone. Many flights to and from #Iran are canceled. Please expect delays in both return schedules and email responses. @helsinki.fi @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

#EuroBioC2026 (i.e. The European #Bioconductor Conference) will take place, in Turku, Finland, on June 3-5, 2026. For more info see eurobioc2026.bioconductor.org. #Bioinformatics #Rprogramming

Ever wondered what happens when muscle research scientists attempt to build a gingerbread house? #LabLife #MuscleScience #PeerReviewPending @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Our new preprint on the limitations of PolyA+ selection vs rRNA-depleted RNA-seq, especially its effects on analysis of splicing and expression of long transcripts (and on findings of diseases linked to these transcripts), is now out: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #RNAseq #RNASplicing #Bioinformatics

Our new preprint on the limitations of PolyA+ selection vs rRNA-depleted RNA-seq, especially its effects on splicing and the expression of long transcripts (and diseases linked to them), is now out: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #RNAseq #RNASplicing #Bioinformatics

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆

Check out our recap videos from #EMC2025 and #WMS2025 on our Instagram 📹 : European Muscle Conference (www.instagram.com/reel/DPTJFxc...) World Muscle Society Congress (www.instagram.com/reel/DQOT_LV...)

A run-in with some artefact-laden AI-generated analyses convinced Lei Zhu that machine learning wasn’t making his role irrelevant, but more important than ever go.nature.com/4hd7MCU

A few highlights from a great week at #WMS2025 in #Vienna with the @myofinlab.bsky.social team!

Heading back to Helsinki after an inspiring #WMS2025. Grateful for an excellent meeting, a beautiful host city, and the chance to connect with brilliant colleagues and scientists

Great times with the Myofin team (@myofinlab.bsky.social) at #WMS2025 In Vienna !😂

@jaakkosarparanta.bsky.social presenting in the poster highlights session! 👏 #WMS2025 @worldmusclesociety.org

Two years from today #Helsinki and #Finlandiahall will welcome #WMS2027, the annual congress of @worldmusclesociety.org. Save the date!

Interested in the regulation of RNA splicing in skeletal muscle development and function? Come by my poster (442P) this evening from 17:15 to 18:15 at #WMS2025.

Our team is excited to connect - come find us at the @worldmusclesociety.org congress. 🇦🇹 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡 #WMS2025

"Transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling provide novel insight into the pathogenesis of monogenic SGMS2-related osteoporosis." Our manuscript in accepted format (by JBMR Plus) is now online: academic.oup.com/jbmrplus/art... @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Registration for the @myofinlab.bsky.social - organized course, ILS144: "Genetic and genomic technologies in health care" is open. Link: tinyurl.com/43n2ydwu @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

🚨Publication alert!🚨 doi.org/10.1177/2214... First author Milla’s summary of the article: ”The objective of this study was to identify and further investigate the causative genetic variant in a patient with lethal nemaline myopathy.” (1/6) #MyoBlue

"A homozygous single-nucleotide variant in TNNT1 causes abnormal troponin T isoform expression in a patient with severe nemaline myopathy: A case report" - by Milla Laarne, et al. (Myofin lab)- just got published in the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our team is excited to connect – come find us at #ESHG2025, or reach out to set up a meeting. Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! @eshg.bsky.social #ESHG #Networking #ResearchCollaboration #Myofin

Our senior researcher @laitilajenni.bsky.social has published her final project from her postdoc in Copenhagen. Jenni's passion is elucidating the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying nemaline myopathy. May is the official #NMAwarenessMonth – take a look at buildingstrength.org for more information 💙

We had the pleasure to attend the Scientific Days organized by @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social at Haikko. Fanny (single-fibre studies) and Milla (nanopore-sequencing) took part in the poster pitching session and had posters on display … (1/3)

Cherry on top of the first of the Folkhälsan Scientific days; presentation by Finnish psychotherapist, actor and screen writer Kari Ketonen (the star of the popular Luottomies TV shows and movie) on how to stress less. @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social @folkhalsan.bsky.social

Running aggregate() on wide matrices takes loooong; better to use nested apply or data tables instead ! gacatag.blogspot.com/2025/04/runn... #Rprogramming #gacatag

🚨Publication alert!🚨 First author Victoria’s summary of the paper: ”Genetic testing can leave many rare muscle disease patients without answers.” (1/4)

🚨Publication alert!🚨 First author Ali’s summary of the paper: skeletalmusclejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... (1/6)

Our paper about the alternative splicing of #OBSCN during skeletal #muscle and #cardiac muscle development, was just published in BMC #SkeletalMuscle, doi.org/10.1186/s133...

#RareDiseaseDay is on the last day of February (28th or 29th). Approximately 5% of the world's population is affected by a rare disease. Rare Disease Day is an important initiative for us, as nearly 90% of neuromuscular disorders are classified as rare diseases. (1/5)