GWAS: 1st there were GLMMs, then KnockoffGWAS, now TarGene. With Ava Khamseh, Sjoerd Beentjes & Mark van der Laan. Targeted estimation of effect sizes & >=2-pt epistatic interactions of variants on traits. Dispensing with unnecessary assumptions in popgen. doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

📣Applications are now open for our 5th cohort of CDT students. 4-year PhD studentships in biomedical AI are fully funded and open to students in the UK and internationally. Apply by 13 January: edin.ac/3gyv2A0 School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh ANC@Edinburgh

Exciting PhD studentship, a collaboration of Kriegsheim-lab, Ava Khamseh and Gourley lab. Use proteomics and machine learning to identify a cohort of ovarian cancers sensitive to Trametinib ed.ac.uk/usher/precisio… #PrecisionMedicine #MRC

Struggling to think of a good present for the computational undergraduates in your life? How about this amazing opportunity to come and do a PhD with me! shorturl.at/kzPZ0

My thoughts on changes to the eLife publishing model: deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-sugg…

📢NEW PAPER Know that clustering single cells in reduced dimensions is problematic? Want to identify cell subtypes or states *without* clustering? Then check out Stator which finely resolves states & subtypes even among apparently homogeneous cells 🧵1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Researchers from School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh will contribute their expertise to four of nine new AI hubs delivering next-generation innovations and technologies to propel the UK to the forefront of advanced #AI research, thanks to £24m funding from @UKRI_news. 🔗 Read more: edin.ac/3wddhOo

Great job opportunity helping deliver amazing research applying AI to real-world challenges in the new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation ⁦UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation ⁦School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh⁩. Contact me for more information! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

The news is out! This is an exciting project together with Filippo Del Bene and Ava Khamseh we aim to build a #zebrafish model mimicking earliest events of tumour initiation and capture cellular state transition from mutant to transformed cells. Are you CRISPR wiz? Join us!

NEWS🎉 Today X-Net launched recommendations to UK Research and Innovation to tackle barriers for #InterdisciplinaryResearch careers 👇we explain how these were developed with researchers, public & industry ​x-net.bio/report Collaboration among MRC_HGU MRC WIMM MRC PPU Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford 1/12

Applications are now open to join our new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation for September 2024 entry. All the information you need to apply is ➡️ ai4biomed.io UK Research and Innovation UKRI AI CDT in Biomedical Innovation

Applications close 26th April - FindAPhD : UKRI CDT in AI for Biomedical Innovation at University of Edinburgh findaphd.com/phds/program/u…

A CRUK funded PhD studentship that I co-supervise with Leo M. Carlin Ava Khamseh Xiao Fu in sunny Edinburgh! ed.ac.uk/cancer-centre/… #zebrafish #singelcell RNAseq #liveimaging please getting in touch if you are interested!

I'm hiring!! Myself and KangBerg lab are looking for a computational biologist to work jointly with us on a super exciting project using single-cell 'omics to unravel the impact of APOE genetic variants on microglia biology. It's got brain organoids, genetics, omics, the works!

📢#ME is clear to see in the blood of 1,455 #pwME <New Preprint, not peer reviewed> 116 blood molecules or cells are significantly different between #pwME and population controls & in both females & males & these differences are NOT due to inactivity medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/4

Research: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is clear to see in the blood - By Simon McGrath #mecfs "In a huge study, researchers at Edinburgh University analysing blood biomarker data have found many differences between people with ME and healthy controls. " Read more here:

Chronic fatigue syndrome can take years to diagnose, but a blood test could help doctors spot the condition sooner. newscientist.com/article/244711…