It's not the main point of the paper but it's interesting that a single nucleotide variant in the middle of an intron was enough to produce the observed phenotype and allow us to identify the gene of interest 🧐 academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

Congratulations to Anni Zhang, Ph.D. from the Jim Johnson, PhD and Janel Kopp groups for another excellent first author paper 👏 rdcu.be/cHxRb

Symposium alert! We are celebrating Don's retirement! More details to come.

Announcing the one-day symposium celebrating Don Moerman's career and retirement! A hybrid virtual/IRL event: May 20, 2022 blog.wormbase.org/2022/05/05/may…

The Moerman Symposium is this Friday, May 20, from 8:50am to 5:30pm at LSC1: bit.ly/3NgGX0y This symposium celebrates the retirement and scientific careers of Dr. Moerman featuring scientists who interacted with him personally and scientifically.

Thrilled to announce my first first author paper from my PhD is online. Check out our work on multiple VPg proteins in dicistroviruses! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats Reid Warsaba Leonard Foster LSI Bioinformatics Facility on this study. Great work and collaboration examining VPg copies in a viral genome - to compensate IRES translation journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

Bit late on the tweeting, but our latest resource and manuscript are live and published! We utilized open data to curate and explore the expression patterns of the genes that regulate palmitoylation in the brain 🧠 elifesciences.org/articles/75804 brainpalmseq.med.ubc.ca

Doug had a good month, Robin's latest paper is now out in @NAR_Open. Super careful work as usual 👍 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

LSI Paper of the Day☀️ Dr. Robin Vuilleumier uncovers key molecular mechanisms downstream of #BMPsignaling that regulate maturation of this synapse in a new @NAR_Open study with Douglas Allan, LSI Bioinformatics Facility and colleagues. 🪰 📚: bit.ly/3QCYJwj DFG public | @[email protected] CIHR

Ever wondered how to detect bacterial short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in real time and without extraction? Check out our latest preprint led by UBC School of Biomedical Engineering Adel Yavarinasab! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Congratulations Reid and good luck with the new job!

Very nice to reconnect with my old collaborator Maja Tarailo-Graovac who graciously invited us to participate to this study of balancer strains in #Celegans led by her post-doc Tatiana Maroilley genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo…

Scientists discover that a biochemical process called #palmitoylation supports the neuronal plasticity that underlies #learning and memory in mice—providing a resource to further explore the roles of protein palmitoylation in #cognition. @SciSignal scim.ag/PD

LSI Paper of the Day☀️ A collaboration between EricJan lab & LSI Bioinformatics Facility describes a novel approach to identify virus protein-linked genome (VPg) duplications in RNA viral genomes, and demonstrates duplicated elements are more widespread than previously thought. Elsevier | ScienceDirect

Another very nice publication by Angie Wild from the Shernaz Bamji lab about #palmitoylation. This time the group investigated several hundred cell lines using publicly available RNA-seq data and created a user friendly database cellpalmseq.med.ubc.ca frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Tatiana Maroilley et al characterized the complex rearrangements in multiple #Celegans balancers. I hope we will find a way to make the data available at wormbase but in the meantime you can see your favourite balancer in the publication genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo…

We are hiring! Looking for a bioinformatician to lead workshops, do some analysis and guide trainees. Note that all staff positions at the university are on renewable yearly contracts but this is expected to be a permanent position ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcstaff… Please RT

Join us in beautiful Vancouver!

Very excited to share our latest publication, led by Adel Yavarinasab! We show real time detection of microbiota-produced SCFAs using a microfluidic chemiresistor. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hL6n3IQMPSk…