Advancing #stemcell #brainrepair techniques, Prof Clare Parish & team have taken multiple approaches to improve safety & efficacy of dopamine graft transplants in #Parkinsons. Read: florey.edu.au/about/news-med… Herald Sun Brigid O'Connell Paper Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

This must reach every voter & politician in Australia. Increased funding of science can prevent the next pandemic/disaster, improve/save lives & lift the economy. Not ScoMo Anthony Albanese @GregHuntMP Tanya Plibersek Josh Frydenberg Adam Bandt Liam Mannix #DiscoveriesNeedDollars

Relative risk: numbers who might die in Australia per 100,000 people from: AstraZeneca vaccine: 0.3, road accident: 4.7, (2019 figure), unvaccinated & contract COVID: 300-800. There are age effects in all of these, but massively weighted in favor of the vaccine for older people

With hysterical headlines like this, Herald Sun shamelessly promotes public fear & disinformation. The disaster is our nation's appalling rate of vaccination. If you seek credible information, look elsewhere. #COVID19Vic #COVID19Aus #auspol

Vaccinated health workers at West Hoxton birthday party. Lesson for those who want to party is obvious! didn't contract COVID-19, NSW Health reveals abc.net.au/news/2021-06-2… The only people at the party who didn't get infected

The Animal Resources Centre (ARC), which stores and supplies many animal strains to researchers in Australia, just announced they will cease operations over the next 12-18 months 😲 (they are the Australian equivalent of the American Jackson Laboratory)

The Australian Research Council has ruled *dozens* of fellowship grants ineligible because the applications cited "preprints". Not just in the applicants' publication list, but *anywhere* in the app. Not just those co-authored by the applicant, but *any* "preprint". x.com/matthewbailes/…

My team is seeking two research assistants - ideally one to culture human iPSCs, the other to culture primary OPCs. If you are interested check out the positio description and apply via the UTAS website protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nJWoCq7BJXt8… closes 15th November

Profs Lachlan Thompson Lachlan Thompson 🔬 Clare Parish Dr Niamh Moriarty & team set new #brainrepair benchmark in #Parkinsonsdisease model, reconstructing long-distance circuitry by hPSCs-dopamine transplantation + striatum GDNF delivery.📖Cell Stem Cell doi.org/10.1016/j.stem… NHMRC #MRFF

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The look of relief - congrats Kevin Law on nailing you oration. Super proud!

Our tool BLAZE for identifying cell barcodes from Oxford Nanopore scRNA-seq is now published in Genome Biology genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Lots of improvements from preprint -faster -high sensitivity mode -output to run empty drops to save/discard cells -robust to different read depths

The Blewitt lab @WEHIresearch is recruiting a new research assistant. Please apply to join our very friendly group. The role is to support the team by culturing iPSC and differentiating neural lineage cells for studying human neurodevelopment. Please RT! seek.com.au/job/69099805?t…

Postdoc positions with long term ERC funding (please RT). ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

There are still a few tickets left to join us in person at the MACH Advances in Cell & Gene Therapies Symposium. It’s your chance to network with experts in the cell & #GeneTherapy trials space & gain insights into clinical application of therapies. 🧬ow.ly/J0F450RuiBa🧬